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 used Objective-C as its programming language of choice for right around 20 years now, but it's brought something new to its yearly developer conference: Swift, a new tongue of its own making.

Apple has introduced a brand new programming language alongside a brand new version of Xcode. Swift is a big deal for developers. The language includes loads of features third-party developers have ...

The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android was published this week, allowing developers to build Android apps in ...

Apple's new programming language lets you code apps for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, and features interactive Playgrounds for showing the results of code in real time. In a surprise announcement during ...

Just six months after its introduction at WWDC 2014, Apple's Swift continues to generate immense interest with developers and is now the 22nd most popular programming language around, according to new ...

Most of the headlines from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2014 last week were about iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite (v10.10), both on tap for this fall. By far the more impactful news for solution ...

As we noted at the end of our recent Worldwide Developer Conference overview article (“Apple Unveils iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite at WWDC,” 2 June 2014), Apple has released a brand new programming language ...

If anyone outside Apple saw Swift coming, they certainly weren't making any public predictions. In the middle of a keynote filled with the sorts of announcements you'd expect (even if the details were ...