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 ...

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 ...

Cultured Code today announced that it has overhauled the cloud backend of the popular task management app Things 3 using ...

Because of Swift's unique position at the heart of the Apple universe, says Facebook programming language guru Andrei Alexandrescu, all it has to do is "not suck." There's a certain truth to his ...

The Swift programming language was as close to a "One More Thing" as there was at the WWDC Keynote this week, debuting to significant cheers from the developers in the audience. Immediate reaction ...

SAN FRANCISCO — When I spent time around WWDC this past week, one word was on everybody’s lips: Swift. Apple’s newly-announced programming language brings a number of benefits, and marks a ...

Apple’s new Swift language is the first time Cupertino ... “It’s still native, it still compiles, but it’s a style of programming that a lot of people–especially backend developers ...

But according to Ted Kremenek, Apple director of languages and runtimes, programmers should be shaking off programming stalwart C++ in favour of Swift. “Swift’s safety, speed, and ...