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 ...

Pascal, the language will look familiar. Moreover, Swift manages to add in some sophisticated programming language features (closures, tuples, and variadic parameters, to name just a few geeky ...

Swift, the programming language Apple launched in the summer of 2014 to replace the aging Objective-C, has entered the TIOBE index of programming languages top 10 for the first time in its short life.

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 ...

A new report ranking developers' favorite languages shows big gains for Apple's Swift and Google-endorsed Kotlin.

A quarterly ranking of the most popular programming language found that Swift made it into the top 10 for the first time, and is now tied with Objective-C … RedMonk has been compiling quarterly ...

Best programming languages for coders compared, including Swift, Python, Java, C and Perl. Coding has never been more popular, and learning to program in Mac OS X is a great skill to get.

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

Swift wasn't a "sometime before the year's out"-style announcement, either. The same day, a 550-page language guide appeared in the iBooks store.

Apple introduced a brand new programming language last year that’s meant to make coding an app for iOS or OS X easy to do, and today that language is taking a major step: it’s going open source.