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.

Wil Shipley, a developer whose association with Apple began with a contract for NeXT, has posted two tweets in praise of Swift shortly after Apple’s “significant update” to the programming language.

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 ...

Mac and iOS developers are taking hard looks at Swift, Apple's new programming language introduced this month at WWDC in San Francisco. Some urgent questions include whether Swift is good or bad, ...

Apple’s new Swift language is the first time Cupertino has seriously changed its software underpinnings since it bought NeXT, which became the guts of Mac OS X. So how different is it, really? And ...

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 ...