Swift, akin to Objective-C but without the baggage, emphasizes speed and interactivity for building OS X and iOS apps Apple has a new programming language, Swift, intended to provide modern ...

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.

I didn’t see this coming, but Apple’s Swift programming language is now being officially extended to support Android app development. This is done via an establishment of a dedicated Android Working ...

Apple's Swift programming language, first released in 2014 for Apple's own platforms, is now pushing to add official support for Android. Historically, Swift has been closely tied to Apple's ecosystem ...

Apple brought out the big guns, from CEO Tim Cook to musical performer Drake, but perhaps the loudest reaction at the company’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference Monday in San Francisco resulted from ...

More work remains to be done in the porting effort, but Windows support is now good enough for early adopters to get started The Apple-developed Swift programming language is now available on Windows, ...

With iOS 8 and OS X 10.10, and the the latest version of the Xcode developer tools, Apple has introduced a whole new programming language called Swift. According to Apple, Swift will make it a lot ...

Apple will release the source code underlying its Swift programming language, a move that could broaden the user base for the new language. When Swift becomes open source later this year, programmers ...