Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt covered Google and security for CNET News, with occasional forays into tech and pop culture. Formerly a CNET Reviews senior editor for software, he has written about ...

Apple's Swift has far-reaching effects on all platforms, not just iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS. Learn why Swift matters, how to use the programming language and how it differs from Objective-C.

How do I use Swift Playgrounds on my iPad? Swift Playgrounds is a new app for the iPad (and since ported to the Mac) designed to bring Swift programming to the iPad. Aimed principally at children, ...

Apple says its Swift programming language is now open source. As an open source language, the broad community of developers — from app developers to educational institutions to enterprises — can ...

Earlier today, I got the very first live demo of Swift Assist, one of the many developer tools introduced today by Apple. I also saw code completion in action. It was an impressive demo, and although ...

Apple announced on Monday that it has developed a successor to its venerable Objective C with a language it’s calling Swift. Providing a new language with “none of the baggage of C,” Swift code can ...