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 ...

Apple has a new programming language, Swift, ... Named parameters brought from Objective-C are expressed in a clean syntax, making APIs in Swift “even easier to read and maintain,” Apple said.

A fast look at Swift, Apple’s new programming language For better or worse, Apple's new language lets you do things your way. John Timmer – Jun 5, 2014 8:08 am | 609 ...

Swift is a relatively new programming language, introduced in 2014, but it is designed to sit alongside existing Objective-C programs (which is what OS X and iOS programs used to be developed with ...

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 ...

Swift 5.7, the latest update of Apple’s Swift programming language, is now available, with usability improvements, a smaller and faster standard library, faster build and launch times, and a new ...

Apple's programming language Swift is less than four years old, but a new report finds that it's already as popular as its predecessor, Apple's more established Objective-C language.. Swift is now ...

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.

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.