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SAN FRANCISCO — When I spent time around WWDC this past week, one word was on everybody’s lips: Swift. Apple’s newly-announced programming language brings a number of benefits, and marks a major ...

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.

Apple has officially released the next iteration of its Swift programming language, it’s now on version 4. The new major update builds on Swift 3’s strengths and is source code compatible with the ...

Just hours after Apple made its Swift programming language open source, IBM has introduced a new, simple, and free browser-based way for developers to get started writing code. Created at IBM's Mobile ...

Apple created the new Swift programming language as a better way of building apps for the iPhone, and it was a welcomed thing. Today, about 18 months after it was first unveiled—much to the surprise ...

Apple announced on Monday that it has developed a successor to its venerable Objective C with a language it’s calling Swift. Providing a new language with “none of the baggage of C,” Swift code can ...

Apple's Swift programming language officially landed on Windows this week, with Swift toolchain images now available for download from the open source project. Announced in a blog post on Tuesday, the ...