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

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 ...

That said, while Apple is saying that the course will be offered in “over 30 community college systems” it’s not entirely clear how many colleges will actually be offering the curriculum.

Apple is publishing code for the raw language compiler as well as the Swift standard library and parts of Foundation, which many developers did not think would happen.

Apple has a new programming language, Swift, intended to provide modern programming capabilities for Apple application development and streamline the building of applications.

Swift is not only faster, but supports many modern programming conventions, such as closures, generics, type inference, multiple return types and namespaces.

But Swift’s growth is “unprecedented.” Swift was always going to be a top-20 language, given that Apple has declared it to be the successor to Objective-C.

Apple Inc. on Friday launched a blog for its new Swift programming language, amid signs it's gaining traction in the iOS and Mac OS developer communities.

Apple's software team has officially made Swift, its proprietary iOS and OS X development software, open source and available for modification by all developers, via the new website Swift.org.