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.

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 ...

However, Swift could yet gain further impetus from companies like IBM Corp. and PerfectlySoft Inc., both of which see potential to become a server-side language outside of Apple’s ecosystem.

Open-sourcing Swift is a big win for the developer community as it means Swift can now be setup to run on a server and many other use cases, bringing Apple programming talent and expertise beyond ...

Apple unveiled Swift in 2014 as the modern replacement to Objective-C and it quickly became a staple programming language for building apps for iOS and macOS computers. However, according to Stack ...

Swift 5.3 is available to developers from the Swift website or with the latest version of Apple's integrated development environment, Xcode 12, which also includes SDKs for iOS 14, iPadOS 14, tvOS ...

Last year, Apple introduced Swift, its very own programming language, which was focused on making it easier to build apps. Now, in a bid to make it more palatable to developers, Apple is making ...

“By making Swift open source the entire developer community can contribute to the programming language and help bring it to even more platforms,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of ...