As we noted at the end of our recent Worldwide Developer Conference overview article (“Apple Unveils iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite at WWDC,” 2 June 2014), Apple has released a brand new programming language ...

Apple had until the end of the year to make good on making Swift open source, and now it has.The language, along with its compiler, libraries and debugger, are all open source.. Swift has been ...

Swift is not likely to replace Kotlin or Java on Android in the near future, but some developers may find it useful for cross-platform projects.

Swift is the fastest growing language RedMonk has seen since it started compiling these rankings in 2011. Even Go , a programming language that Google released in 2009, hasn't been able to break ...

To work today, learn Java or PHP. To write the future, learn Go, Swift or R.

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 ...

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 ...

His long and illustrious history in compiler technology and programming language development includes the following credentials: Created the LLVM compiler as part of a University of Illinois research ...

Apple dropped a huge surprise at WWDC on Monday, as it announced that it’s built a new programming language for iOS and OS X called Swift. The new language — which is in beta until iOS 8 is ...

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.