Apple's Swift Blog was used to announce that the new Xcode 6 beta, introduced at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June, will now be offered free to all "registered Apple developers." ...

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.

There, developers can find everything they need to get started with Swift for their own projects, like technical documentation and links to the source code, which Apple is hosting on GitHub.

Apple first introduced Swift in 2014 and open-sourced it in late 2015. With Swift, developers can build iOS, macOS (formerly OS X), tvOS, and watchOS apps.

Apple announced Swift 5.5 in June at its annual developer conference WWDC with headline features including 'Swift Concurrency' for asynchronous and concurrent programming, improved package ...

“By making Swift open source the entire developer community can contribute to the programming language and help bring it to even more platforms,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of ...

The latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 8, was unveiled at WWDC today promising new features not only for consumers, but also for developers, thanks to a brand new SDK ...

At its WWDC event on Monday, Apple made waves among the iOS and Mac developer communities with the announcement of Swift, a new programming language designed from the ground up by the company's ...

Swift is Apple’s play to lower the barriers of entry to becoming an iOS or Mac developer. By making coding simpler, more effective, and safe from major screw-ups — Federighi said common ...

Of the many surprises Apple had in store for us this past Monday, the introduction of an entirely new programming language called Swift was particularly well received by developers. John Gruber's ...

According to Chris Lattner, head of Apple's Developer Tools department, the Swift programming language was in development for four years before its official unveiling during WWDC 2014.

Now Apple's App Store has over 500,000 apps at least partially written in the language, including Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and Square, and developers say most new iOS apps are created using Swift.