When Apple ended its WWDC keynote in June 2014 by announcing Swift, an all-new language for creating iOS apps, it was an unusual moment for a couple of reasons. For one thing, it was a seriously ...

How do I use Swift Playgrounds on my iPad? Swift Playgrounds is a new app for the iPad (and since ported to the Mac) designed to bring Swift programming to the iPad. Aimed principally at children, ...

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 ...

A Mashable Choice Award is a badge of honor, reserved for the absolute best stuff we’ve tested and loved. I’ve been in the tech publishing industry for 25 years, but that no more makes me a programmer ...

As we noted at the end of our recent Worldwide Developer Conference overview article (“Apple Unveils iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite at WWDC,” 2 June 2014), Apple has released a brand new programming language ...

Apple created the new Swift programming language as a better way of building apps for the iPhone, and it was a welcomed thing. Today, about 18 months after it was first unveiled—much to the surprise ...

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 ...

Swift, the fast growing computer programming language created by Apple, is officially going open source starting today. Apple unveiled Swift at WWDC in 2014 with a promise to make it open source in ...