Apple's Federighi positions open-sourced Swift as 'primary,' scalable programming language Apple has grand ambitions for its newly open-sourced Swift programming language, senior Software VP Craig Federighi suggested in a Thursday interview, including making it a "front to back" development option. Roger Fingas 10 years ago 0
Apple programming language Swift goes open source Apple's software team has officially made Swift, its proprietary iOS and OS X development software, open source and available for modification by all developers, via the new website Swift.org. Jason Woods 10 years ago 0
Achieving Nerdvana: Learning Swift for iOS at Big Nerd Ranch With its origins at NeXT, Big Nerd Ranch is one of the more respected iOS app development companies in the world. At a recent coding retreat put on by BNR, I survived seven days of the most intensive programming instruction of my life, and lived to write about it. Jonathan Lace 10 years ago 9
Apple's iTunes U course on Swift is watershed in high school computer science education In a groundbreaking first, Apple at this year's WWDC conference in June published an iTunes U course that provides educators with first party tools to teach the Swift programming language to high school students. Jonathan Lace 11 years ago 61
Apple to open source Swift later this year with support for iOS, OS X, and Linux Apple on Monday announced that it would make its popular new Swift programming language open source, releasing the language and toolchains for iOS, OS X, and Linux. AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 73
Apple releases Xcode 6.3.1, fixing 'critical issues' related to debugging and more Apple on Tuesday issued a minor update for Xcode, improving stability and fixing what the company said are "critical issues" associated with debugging, playgrounds, and Interface Builder. AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 25
Apple supplies first beta of iOS 8.3 to developers, issues 'noteworthy' update to Swift Before the public release of iOS 8.2, Apple on Monday already provided its development community with a beta build of iOS 8.3, along with a new version of its Swift programming language with "noteworthy" changes. AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 26
Apple's new Swift programming language takes flight with Getty Images, American Airlines, LinkedIn, and Duolingo Apple's new Swift programming language has only been available for a few months, but iOS and OS X developers from American Airlines, Getty Images, LinkedIn and Duolingo are reporting favorable impressions—ranging from increased productivity to fewer bugs in their shipping apps—as interest in the new language rapidly accelerates. Daniel Eran Dilger 11 years ago 170
Apple's Swift rockets up programming language rankings, jumps 46 spots Just six months after its introduction at WWDC 2014, Apple's Swift continues to generate immense interest with developers and is now the 22nd most popular programming language around, according to new rankings published on Thursday. Mikey Campbell 11 years ago 54
Apple Inc's new Swift language a "huge leap forward for iOS ecosystem," offers "enormous opportunity" with IBM in enterprise Speaking to analysts, Apple's chief executive Tim Cook called the company's new Swift programming language "a huge leap forward for the iOS ecosystem" and an important contributing factor to the company's new partnership with IBM targeting enterprise app development. Daniel Eran Dilger 11 years ago 72
Apple launches developer blog for new Swift programming language Apple's march toward transparency continued on Friday with the launch of the Swift Blog, a new developer-focused blog covering the Swift programming language introduced by the company at WWDC. Sam Oliver 11 years ago 29
Apple's top secret Swift language grew from work to sustain Objective C, which it now aims to replace Work on Swift—Apple's surprise new programming language unveiled at WWDC—started development four years ago in conjunction with efforts to keep Objective C relevant. Swift now aims to quickly replace Objective C for modern Cocoa development on iOS and OS X. Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 93
Apple unveils Swift, a brand new Xcode programming language for developers Calling it "fast, modern, safe and interactive," Apple on Monday unveiled Swift, a brand new Xcode programming language that it says is superior to Objective-C. AppleInsider Staff 12 years ago 214
