Why will iOS developers care about a new language? Well, that's a very different thing. First, because Apple is putting its stamp of approval on Swift (and tentatively removing it from Objective-C ...

Swift is not only more familiar to contemporary coders -- offering things like "generics," basic building blocks you can use over and over again -- it includes several tools designed to better ...

Swifty is an app that provides an interactive set of tutorials that gradually guide you through the basics of Swift on your iPhone or iPad, from the very basics of variables and data types to the ...

A fast look at Swift, Apple’s new programming language For better or worse, Apple's new language lets you do things your way.

Chris Lattner, the creator of and project lead for Apple’s Swift programming language, today announced in a mailing list email that he will be leaving Apple later this month. He will be joining ...

Swift had a rating of 3 percent for 2014 and ranked ninth on PyPL’s index for the month, jumping past two long-established languages: Ruby and Visual Basic.

Ubiquitous JavaScript and newcomer Swift garnered 2014 programming language of the year honors from respective ranking organizations.

Apple’s Swift jumps to 22nd ranking Apple’s new programming language Swift was presented at WWDC 2014 and Version 1.0 was released along with Xcode 6 last fall.

The ‘first-class’ concurrency model would make asynchronous programming in Swift convenient, efficient, and safe, according to a roadmap outlining the plan ...

When Apple ended its WWDC keynote in June 2014 by announcing Swift, an all-new language for creating iOS apps, it was an unusual moment for a couple of reasons. For one thing, it was a seriously ...

Apple created the new Swift programming language as a better way of building apps for the iPhone. Now one company wants to put it on servers.