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 ...

Text has long been customizable in Xcode when creating software for Apple's platforms. Now, String catalogs make it even easier to localize your app to multiple languages. Ever since macOS shipped in ...

Most of the headlines from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2014 last week were about iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite (v10.10), both on tap for this fall. By far the more impactful news for solution ...

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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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Soroosh Khodami discusses why we aren't ready ...

SAN FRANCISCO — When I spent time around WWDC this past week, one word was on everybody’s lips: Swift. Apple’s newly-announced programming language brings a number of benefits, and marks a major ...

If anyone outside Apple saw Swift coming, they certainly weren’t making any public predictions. In the middle of a keynote filled with the sorts of announcements you’d expect (even if the details were ...

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 ...

At its WWDC developer event today, Apple surprised all of the developers in the audience by launching a new programming language called Swift. This new language seems to be poised to replace Objective ...

Objective-C's syntax is sort of vaguely C-style, yeah, but it just buried in pointless extra characters and bullshit. It's unbelievable to me that someone designed it to look the way it does. I just ...