On Tuesday, Apple drops Swift Playgrounds in the app store. I've been immersing myself in this iPad-based code school for a week. Now, as I stare at a Swift Playground lesson plan, I realize I was ...

Swift, Apple said, resulted from the latest research on programming languages combined with experience building Apple platforms. The language uses the LLVM compiler, with Swift code transformed ...

How to use Swift Playgrounds: Entering code in Swift Playgrounds When the course has finished downloading, tap on Open or My Playgrounds to locate it. You now switch to the main programming interface.

Apple has not ported Swift to Android or Windows. But the code it has released should allow the open source community to build software that runs on both—and, potentially, on any other OS.

The new version of Swift improves binary code size and runtime memory usage compared with Swift 4 relative to applications written in Apple's legacy programming language Objective-C. Apple ...

Apple today announced a new programming language called Swift at WWDC, which will replace Objective C as the language developers use for building iOS and OS X apps.. Craig Federighi announced the ...

Apple showed off a couple of cases where implementing the same algorithm in Swift provided a speedup of about 1.3X compared to the same code implemented in Objective C.

“Swift Playgrounds for the iPad is a crucial piece of this: it uses real Swift code to teach programming fundamentals, while also providing a full featured native iOS development experience that ...

Built with performance in mind (according to Apple, Swift is 8.4 times faster than Python), its strong type system and more secure code reduces the likelihood of vulnerabilities and crashes, and ...

Throughout the Swift code, you’ll find C and C++ files. How to learn C in Mac OS X: Why you should learn C in Mac OS X You’re almost sure never to use C professionally, but learning it is a ...