How to write apps with Swift 3: Getting the core fundamentals right with new Swift 3 API language What may surprise developers who’ve been using Swift 2 (or before) is how much the language is ...

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.

Swift is a programming language that gives developers the freedom and capabilities they need to create the next generation of cutting-edge software. Swift is easy to learn and use, even if you’ve ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now Apple's App Store has over 500,000 apps at least partially written in the language, including Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and Square, and developers say most new iOS apps are created using Swift.

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 ...

An open source Swift could grow to compete with other languages on other devices—and even inside data centers. That's good for the developer world, and well, it's good for Apple.

Tutorials for using Swift are included in the Xcode beta release. Apple’s new language is a “big deal,” said analyst Frank Gillett, of Forrester.

The PYPL index is based on web searches for tutorials about programming languages. In 2014, Swift saw the largest increase among all languages in its share of such searches, 2.9%.