Of the many surprises Apple had in store for us this past Monday, the introduction of an entirely new programming language called Swift was particularly well received by developers. John Gruber's ...

Apple has launched a blog on its official developer website to promote the new Swift programming language. Swift, which was announced at WWDC 2014, is a successor to the Objective-C programming ...

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Google is considering making Apple's Swift programming language a "first class" language for Android, reports The Next Web. Executives from Google, Facebook, and Uber reportedly attended a meeting to ...

As promised earlier in the year, Apple’s Swift team has now posted source code for the Swift compiler and standard library functions and objects. Open-sourcing Swift is a big win for the developer ...

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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 ...

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, ...

Swift is seeing its initial release on Windows. Developers can now download Swift toolchain images for Windows 10. Developer Readdle has been experimenting with bringing Swift to Windows for more than ...

Apple's new Swift programming language has only been available for a few months, but iOS and OS X developers from American Airlines, Getty Images, LinkedIn and Duolingo are reporting favorable ...

is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Swift is now on Linux, and it could come to Windows and Android, too Apple is kicking that final ...