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.

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.

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 ...

Apple’s Swift programming language rolled out to much fanfare in the spring of 2014.Since then, it has become a fertile platform for supplemental tooling, thanks to third-party projects ranging ...

Apple created the new Swift programming language as a better way of building apps for the iPhone, and it was a welcomed thing. Today, about 18 months after it was first unveiled—much to the ...

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 ...

Apple has not ported Swift to Android or Windows. But the code it has released should allow the open source community to build software that runs on both—and, potentially, on any other OS.

Apple debuted a new programming language called Swift that the company hopes will make coding faster while eliminating catastrophic errors. This story is part of WWDC 2022, ...

A quarterly ranking of the most popular programming language found that Swift made it into the top 10 for the first time, and is now tied with Objective-C …. RedMonk has been compiling quarterly ...

As the dust settled following the WWDC introduction of Swift, Apple's new and future programming language, Mac and iOS developers had plenty to ponder. Many are coming around to Swift after ...