Apple's programming language Swift is less than four years old, but a new report finds that it's already as popular as its predecessor, Apple's more established Objective-C language. Swift is now tied ...

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Apple had until the end of the year to make good on making Swift open source, and now it has. The language, along with its compiler, libraries and debugger, are all open source. Swift has been ...

Swift, the programming language Apple launched in the summer of 2014 to replace the aging Objective-C, has entered the TIOBE index of programming languages top 10 for the first time in its short life.

Swift, akin to Objective-C but without the baggage, emphasizes speed and interactivity for building OS X and iOS apps Apple has a new programming language, Swift, intended to provide modern ...

At WWDC in June, Apple announced that their Swift programming language would eventually become open source before the end of the year. The company has fulfilled this promise just a few weeks before ...

Apple today announced a new programming language native to both OS X and iOS: Swift. Speaking at Apple’s annual developer conference, software engineering VP Craig Federighi called the new language ...

Coding for Apple devices just got a little easier for thousands of developers in China, as a group of more than 100 programmers recently wrapped up an open source Mandarin Chinese translation of Apple ...

Apple has released Swift 5.5, the latest version of its open-source programming language for building apps on iOS, macOS and other platforms. Apple announced Swift 5.5 in June at its annual developer ...

The rapidly increasing take-up of Apple's Swift programming language was confirmed again yesterday with the publication of a survey that ranks the popularity of programming languages. In the latest ...

Swift, Apple’s programming language aimed at OS X and iOS developers, has gone open source under the Apache License. This means all of the source code, including the code for a new package manager, ...