Apple's Swift programming language, first released in 2014 for Apple's own platforms, is now pushing to add official support for Android. Historically, Swift has been closely tied to Apple's ...

Chris Lattner spent a year and a half creating a new programming language—a new way of designing, building, and running computer software—and he didn’t mention it to anyone, not even his ...

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 ...

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 ...

This makes the Swift programming language safer to use for developers who aren’t quite as experienced. Swift’s memory management will make apps more reliable, which will benefit developers and ...

Apple has officially made Swift, its programming language that it first announced at WWDC 2014, an open source project. The company announced its intentions to do so earlier this year, and has now ...

Apple's iPad programming app now lets students place Swift Playgrounds' virtual characters into the real world.

Apple touts Swift 5.3's major performance improvements over building apps with its legacy Objective-C language.

Apple introduced a brand new programming language last year that’s meant to make coding an app for iOS or OS X easy to do, and today that language is taking a major step: it’s going open ...

Apple built Swift as a language that is significantly easier to learn and use than its previous language, Objective-C, but that still provides much the same raw speed.