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.

Along with springing iOS 14 on unsuspecting developers, Apple yesterday also released version 5.3 of its Swift programming language. Swift 5.3 is available to developers from the Swift website or with ...

Swift, akin to Objective-C but without the baggage, emphasizes speed and interactivity for building OS X and iOS apps Apple has a new programming language, Swift, intended to provide modern ...

Swift is Apple's open-source, general-purpose programming language. It replaces C-based languages (C, C++, and Objective-C) for everything from systems programming to mobile and desktop apps all the ...

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When it comes to programming languages, it’s often the newest that garner the most attention. But according to Ted Kremenek, Apple director of languages and runtimes, programmers should be shaking off ...