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.

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?

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 ...

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

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# ...

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 ...

The Swift programming language was as close to a "One More Thing" as there was at the WWDC Keynote this week, debuting to significant cheers from the developers in the audience. Immediate reaction ...

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 ...

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 ...