Swift 5.1 introduces a new text-based module interface file that describes the API of a binary framework, allowing for compilation of Swift code using different compiler versions.

ArcTouch used a custom compiler that parsed Swift code and output Java source code. The Swift code was written in Apple’s Xcode IDE, and the code was eventually moved to Google’s Android ...

To make things more complicated both low level APIs – some of which use C++, which Swift cannot bridge to – and higher, Java APIs would have to be rewritten. In effect, Google would need to ...

With the newly introduced language, Apple hopes that programmers who have learnt Java, JavaScript, or Ruby will find many similarities in Swift that will help them master the language without much ...