But developer Filip W has shown that Apple’s new Swift programming language can be used both for app development and as a scripting language. As a proof of concept, he developed a script to change his ...

Why Apple Built Swift There are programming languages like C and Objective-C, but there are also scripting languages (subsets of programming languages) that can execute code line-by-line to let ...

White says Swift’s scripting-like syntax ... with all the power of a compiled language. “It’s still native, it still compiles, but it’s a style of programming that a lot of people ...

Coders will be able to see the results of their programming in real time ... simplicity and interactivity of popular scripting languages. By design, Swift helps developers write safer and more ...

He adds, “Swift is a modern programming language that has adopted all the goodies of other popular languages such as automated memory management, script-like syntax and type inference.” ...

Learn why Swift matters, how to use the programming language and how it differs from Objective-C. Objective-C has won the hearts of many developers. It started as a programming language that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Federighi explained that Swift was designed to eliminate entire categories of common programming ... be related to another language with that name, designed for writing scripts to run in parallel ...