The birth of Swift comes after a realisation that many programming neophytes find it difficult to code in Objective-C because of its untangled pointers, file handling and the punctuation-rich ...

Swift Playgrounds can't disguise the fact that programming gets pretty complex, though. Apple tries to make object-oriented programming concepts clear by analogy with houses and blueprints.

Last year, Apple introduced Swift, its very own programming language, which was focused on making it easier to build apps. Now, in a bid to make it more palatable to developers, Apple is making ...

Apple's Swift programming language, first released in 2014 for Apple's own platforms, is now pushing to add official support for Android. Historically, Swift has been closely tied to Apple's ...

Tutorials for using Swift are included in the Xcode beta release. Apple’s new language is a “big deal,” said analyst Frank Gillett, of Forrester.