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With plans to slowly retire the long-used Objective-C, Apple has introduced a new programming language, called Swift, for designing apps and applications to run on Apple iOS devices and Apple ...

Work on Swift— Apple's surprise new programming language unveiled at WWDC— started development four years ago in conjunction with efforts to keep Objective C relevant. Swift now aims to quickly ...

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Apple's open-source Swift has just broken into the top 10 programming languages, according to a quarterly ranking, in the process supplanting its predecessor on Apple platforms, Objective-C. The top ...

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With plans to slowly retire the long-used Objective-C, Apple has introduced a new programming language, called Swift, for designing apps and applications to run on Apple iOS devices and Apple ...