'Swift' Programming Language in Development for Four Years, "Major Focus" Since 2013. Wednesday June 4, 2014 3:16 pm PDT by Jordan Golson.

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 ...

Young developers at WWDC with Apple CEO Tim Cook. Jimmy Ti, CC BY. Swift is fast and powerful. Fast programming is a key ingredient in Apple’s new hardware and software capabilities.

Want to create your own app? To do so, you need to learn a programming language. Fortunately, Apple has a language for writing apps for the Mac, iPhone, and iPad, and you can have fun learning it ...