It is simpler and easier to use than Objective-C. A new programming language takes years to develop a large community and that’s no secret. Swift, however, has a different story here.

It doesn’t feature Swift programming, yet, but it does hold your hand while you learn Python (which is a great langauge to start with). Learn Python the Hard Way.

If you want to learn how to create an accepted Swift Evolution proposal, you can follow the journey that Erica has gone through with failures, revisions, and successes.

Swift is a programming language that gives developers the freedom and capabilities they need to create the next generation of cutting-edge software. Swift is easy to learn and use, even if you’ve ...

To do so, you need to learn a programming language. Fortunately, Apple has a language for writing apps for the Mac, iPhone, and iPad, and you can have fun learning it, as well. It’s called Swift.

Apple built Swift as a language that is significantly easier to learn and use than its previous language, Objective-C, but that still provides much the same raw speed.

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.

As the dust settled following the WWDC introduction of Swift, Apple's new and future programming language, Mac and iOS developers had plenty to ponder. Many are coming around to Swift after ...

We tore apart Apple's 850-page iBook on its new, simpler programming language, to find out why Apple would introduce a new language--despite all the headaches it will cause.