Indeed, you can write Swift code that leaves users of those languages confused about what's going on. Swift looks a bit like Java in that strings are now a fundamental part of the language, rather ...

A Swift programming demo at WWDC. But why would a company want their own programing language – especially when existing, general purpose codes such as Objective-C and C have been successfully ...

I am not a young kid. I’m 43, and I have been glued to computers since my first Apple II. I decided to run through the Swift Playgrounds activities to see if it can teach an old dog new tricks.

Apple's new programming language lets you code apps for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, and features interactive Playgrounds for showing the results of code in real time.

Apple's used Objective-C as its programming language of choice for right around 20 years now, but it's brought something new to its yearly developer conference: Swift, a new tongue of its own making.

All WWDC 2015 sessions and sample code will be Swift. Developers will get the hint. Anyways, Swift was a contributor in my decision to stop developing native applications.

As promised, Apple has released the source code to its Swift programming language under the Apache 2.0 license (with a Runtime Library Exception). Apple has set up a Web site for Swift, with links to ...

Last summer, about 6 weeks after Apple introduced Swift, a new programming language designed to ultimately replace Objective-C as the language for iOS and OS X development, I wrote about how ...

To work today, learn Java or PHP. To write the future, learn Go, Swift or R.

C# is Microsoft’s primary language and Swift out-performs it by a huge factor because C# and it’s supposed to be Microsoft’s fastest besides C++. Hurray for Apple! iali87 - 10 years ago ...