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 new computer language Swift promises to prevent the programming problems that have plagued its predecessors.

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 ...

Apple has released version 5.2 of its widely used Swift programming language for writing apps for the Mac, iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.

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 ...

Last summer, Apple surprised almost everyone at WWDC with the announcement of Swift, a new programming language for iOS and Mac development. The language feels like something Apple would invent ...

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, ...

In a move that represents a significant shift for Apple—and for the tech industry as a whole—the world's most valuable company has open sourced its Swift programming language, freely sharing ...