Ok, this could prove extremely neat. Among yesterday’s announcements, Apple CEO Tim Cook highlighted Swift Playgrounds, a free new app for beginners who want to create iOS apps using Swift, Apple’s programming language. Swift Playgrounds features lessons to help beginners learn coding concepts such as creating functions, issuing commands, loops, and more. Apple will release […]
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If you’re a Mac or iOS developer, this is huge. Prior to the upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple has release Swift 3.0 preview 1, the tech preview for the latest version of its Swift programming language. According to the Swift-Evolution GitHub page, the primary goal of Swift 3.0 is to “solidify and mature the Swift […]
Apple’s Swift programming language just went open source. And that can’t help but be awesome for the developer community. Apple has announced that Swift has gone open source, Apple releasing two additional projects for Swift in open source: the Core Libraries project, and a new Swift Package Manager project. The Swift Package Manager is a […]
It never hurts when a programming language becomes accessible to a wider audience. During the WWDC keynote on Monday, Apple announced that Swift 2, the update to its Swift programming language, would receive significant changes. A number of enhancements to the language are planned, adding Objective-C generics, a faster debug mode, C function pointer APIs […]
This qualifies as both useful and cool. Last summer, Apple surprised almost everyone at WWDC with the announcement of Swift, a new programming language for iOS and Mac development. The language feels like something Apple would invent. Like several of the languages currently popular in web development, it has a concise, readable syntax that’s easier […]