Last summer, Apple surprised almost everyone at WWDC with the announcement of Swift, a new programming language for iOS and Mac development. The language feels like something Apple would invent. Like ...

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.

Of the many surprises Apple had in store for us this past Monday, the introduction of an entirely new programming language called Swift was particularly well received by developers. John Gruber's ...

In a move that represents a significant shift for Apple—and for the tech industry as a whole—the world's most valuable company has open sourced its Swift programming language, freely sharing the ...

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 major ...

If anyone outside Apple saw Swift coming, they certainly weren’t making any public predictions. In the middle of a keynote filled with the sorts of announcements you’d expect (even if the details were ...

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’s new Swift language is the first time Cupertino has seriously changed its software underpinnings since it bought NeXT, which became the guts of Mac OS X. So how different is it, really? And ...