When Apple opened the App Store in 2008, it began a revolution that would lead to the largest and most vibrant mobile apps ecosystem in existence. It should then come as no surprise that Objective-C, ...

Swift can work alongside Objective-C code, allowing developers to easily integrate it into their existing apps or build their own from scratch. As Swift evolves, Apple plans to provide Xcode tools to ...

After inventing calculus, actuarial tables, and the mechanical calculator and coining the phrase “best of all possible worlds,” Gottfried Leibniz still felt his life’s work was incomplete. Since ...

It’s high time to make the switch to the more approachable, full-featured Swift for iOS and OS X app dev Programming languages don’t die easily, but development shops that cling to fading paradigms do ...

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Developers still value Apple's now-legacy language for iOS and Mac app dev, and the transition Swift will be gradual Objective-C may no longer be the stylish language choice for Apple iOS and Mac OS ...