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.

Apple's Swift has far-reaching effects on all platforms, not just iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS. Learn why Swift matters, how to use the programming language and how it differs from Objective-C.

Apple's new Swift programming language has only been available for a few months, but iOS and OS X developers from American Airlines, Getty Images, LinkedIn and Duolingo are reporting favorable ...

Swift, Apple said, resulted from the latest research on programming languages combined with experience building Apple platforms. The language uses the LLVM compiler, with Swift code transformed ...

Swift, the programming language used to create apps for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and other Apple platforms, could be used to ...

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 ...

Swift Playgrounds could be a transformational app for anyone who wants to learn to code.

Why should you code in Swift 5? 1) Swift is open source. Open source typically means that the source code behind a program, or programming language, is made available to the general public.

But one part of the Swift story is often overlooked: Swift is a cross-platform programming language, with support for Linux, Android, and Windows.

Apple's open-source Swift 5.2 programming language arrived with Tuesday's release of Xcode 11.4, the latest version of Apple's integrated development environment (IDE).