This makes the Swift programming language safer to use for developers who aren’t quite as experienced. Swift’s memory management will make apps more reliable, which will benefit developers and ...

Swift already provides powerful tools to solve many of the problems were runtime programming would be used in Objective-C, but they require a different approach.

Since a few months ago, a debate has been going on within the Objective-C/Swift developer community concerning the lack of dynamic features in Swift and the importance that runtime programming ...

Apple says its Swift programming language is now open source. As an open source language, the broad community of developers -- from app developers to educational institutions to enterprises -- can ...

Apple created the new Swift programming language as a better way of building apps for the iPhone. Now one company wants to put it on servers.

As the dust settled following the WWDC introduction of Swift, Apple's new and future programming language, Mac and iOS developers had plenty to ponder. Many are coming around to Swift after ...

Last summer, about 6 weeks after Apple introduced Swift, a new programming language designed to ultimately replace Objective-C as the language for iOS and OS X development, I wrote about how ...

Apple has always had big ambitions for Swift, the rapidly growing programming language it created for iPhone and iPad apps. "My goal for Swift has always been, and still is, total world domination ...

Chris Lattner spent a year and a half creating a new programming language—a new way of designing, building, and running computer software—and he didn’t mention it to anyone, not even his ...