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Swift demonstrates impressive growth in January 2015 rankings

Apple’s Swift programming language is growing. Per Cult of Mac’s Twitter post and RedMonk, the Swift programming language is gaining ground on GitHub and Stack Overflow, Besides the noted plot, which can be difficult to parse even at full size, we offer the following numerical rankings. As will be observed, this run produced several ties […]

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Microsoft releases updated Office 365 APIs, iOS SDKs to development community

Not that the competition between Apple and Microsoft will ever truly go away, but this could herald in slightly better relations between the two companies, especially given how long it took Microsoft Office to come to iOS. Per The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Microsoft has released a new series of tools for developers looking to improve […]

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Apple launches developer blog for Swift programming language

A little transparency goes a long way. Following the announcement of its new Swift programming language for iOS and OS X, Apple has launched its Swift developer blog, which is designed to bring Swift-based news, updates and information to the public.

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Apple introduces new programming language at WWDC

One of the more unexpected announcements at WWDC, given the audiences reaction, was that Apple would be introducing a new programming language called Swift. Craig Federighi commented on how Objective-C had been the backbone of Mac and iOS development for 20 years, and with the phrase, “What it would be like if we had Objective-C without the […]