Apple has a new programming language, Swift, intended to provide modern programming capabilities for Apple application development and streamline the building of applications. Featured as part of ...

Apple has officially made Swift, its programming language that it first announced at WWDC 2014, an open source project. The company announced its intentions to do so earlier this year, and has now ...

Swift is Apple's open-source, general-purpose programming language. It replaces C-based languages (C, C++, and Objective-C) for everything from systems programming to mobile and desktop apps all ...

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 ...

Apple's open-source Swift 5.2 programming language arrived with Tuesday's release of Xcode 11.4, the latest version of Apple's integrated development environment (IDE).

The language, along with its compiler, libraries and debugger, are all open source. Swift has been released under the Apache 2.0 license, which means developers can use it as they like — even in ...

Swift is the fastest growing language RedMonk has seen since it started compiling these rankings in 2011. Even Go, a programming language that Google released in 2009, hasn't been able to break ...