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 officially landed on Windows this week, with Swift toolchain images now available for download from the open source project.

This just touches the surface of Swift's changes. For more, see the Swift migration guide and the updated The Swift Programming Language manual. Want to play with Swift 5?

Swift 6 programming language focuses on concurrency, Linux and Windows In addition to language enhancements, the programming language brings improvements for connecting platforms beyond Apple's ...

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 ...

Can I use Swift on Windows? You can use Swift on Windows, but the lack of a UI layer that makes the language feel like a second-class citizen. If you want basic systems programming, you write a C# ...

As promised earlier in the year, Apple’s Swift team has now posted source code for the Swift compiler and standard library functions and objects. Open-sourcing Swift is a big win for the ...

Apple touts Swift 5.3's major performance improvements over building apps with its legacy Objective-C language.

Apple’s new programming language for iOS, Swift, is helpful and useful and redundant and ugly and wrongheaded and a great development and a waste. If you’re wondering how those descriptors ...