SAN FRANCISCO — When I spent time around WWDC this past week, one word was on everybody’s lips: Swift. Apple’s newly-announced programming language brings a number of benefits, and marks a major ...

i mean, what's great about it? it seems to me that the syntax is a little outdated when java's lurking around. why did apple make objective-c the native lanugague for Cocoa and java a second class ...

If anyone outside Apple saw Swift coming, they certainly weren’t making any public predictions. In the middle of a keynote filled with the sorts of announcements you’d expect (even if the details were ...

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After inventing calculus, actuarial tables, and the mechanical calculator and coining the phrase “best of all possible worlds,” Gottfried Leibniz still felt his life’s work was incomplete. Since ...

It’s high time to make the switch to the more approachable, full-featured Swift for iOS and OS X app dev Programming languages don’t die easily, but development shops that cling to fading paradigms do ...