Swift already provides powerful tools to solve many of the problems were runtime programming would be used in Objective-C, but they require a different approach.

This makes the Swift programming language safer to use for developers who aren’t quite as experienced. Swift’s memory management will make apps more reliable, which will benefit developers and ...

Apple says its Swift programming language is now open source. As an open source language, the broad community of developers -- from app developers to educational institutions to enterprises -- can ...

Less than a day after Apple made its surprising announcement about a whole new programming language for building iOS applications, called Swift, a developer with just four hours of Swift ...

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 ...

As the dust settled following the WWDC introduction of Swift, Apple's new and future programming language, Mac and iOS developers had plenty to ponder. Many are coming around to Swift after ...

Apple has always had big ambitions for Swift, the rapidly growing programming language it created for iPhone and iPad apps. "My goal for Swift has always been, and still is, total world domination ...

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.

Chris Lattner spent a year and a half creating a new programming language—a new way of designing, building, and running computer software—and he didn’t mention it to anyone, not even his ...

Apple has a new programming language, Swift, intended to provide modern programming capabilities for Apple application development and streamline the building of applications.