Apple's Swift has far-reaching effects on all platforms, not just iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS. Learn why Swift matters, how to use the programming language and how it differs from Objective-C.

Swift, akin to Objective-C but without the baggage, emphasizes speed and interactivity for building OS X and iOS apps Apple has a new programming language, Swift, intended to provide modern ...

The language is called Swift, and on June 2, Apple released a test version to coders outside the company, billing it as a faster and more effective means of building software apps for iPhones ...

Swift is the fastest growing language RedMonk has seen since it started compiling these rankings in 2011. Even Go , a programming language that Google released in 2009, hasn't been able to break ...

You can use Swift on Windows, but the lack of a UI layer that makes the language feel like a second-class citizen. If you want basic systems programming, you write a C# console app.

We tore apart Apple's 850-page iBook on its new, simpler programming language, to find out why Apple would introduce a new language--despite all the headaches it will cause.

A lot of developers were shocked when Apple unveiled a brand new programming language at its WWDC conference in 2014. And while it hasn’t (and will likely never fully) supplanted Objective-C, Swift’s ...

Apple's Swift programming language, first released in 2014 for Apple's own platforms, is now pushing to add official support for Android. Historically, ...

Of the many surprises Apple had in store for us this past Monday, the introduction of an entirely new programming language called Swift was particularly well received by developers. John Gruber's ...

Swift is Apple's open-source, general-purpose programming language. It replaces C-based languages (C, C++, and Objective-C) for everything from systems programming to mobile and desktop apps all ...