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 ...

Apple says its Swift programming language is now open source. As an open source language, the broad community of developers -- from app developers to educational institutions to enterprises -- can ...

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.

Apple's free iBook on Swift calls the new language "the first industrial-quality systems programming language that is as expressive and enjoyable as a scripting language." The company is also ...

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.” ...

Swift is a powerful new programming language for iOS and OS X® that makes it easier than ever for developers to create incredible apps. Designed for Cocoa® and Cocoa Touch®, Swift combines the ...

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 ...

The other well-known ranking of programming language popularity, the TIOBE Index, puts Swift at the number 25 position in its January 2015 edition. The TIOBE Index named JavaScript as the 2014 ...

Apple’s new Swift language, featuring modern-day development capabilities for building OS X and iOS applications, is likely to find swift, high placement in assessments of programming language ...