Chinese officials have made no secret out of their desire to become the world’s dominant player in the technology industry. As we’ve written about before a... (more…)

Imagine for a moment that you are a programmer with reasonable experience in Objective-C, who, upon having been pitched the benefits of… (more…)

Due to rapid development, we had been suffering from a major problem: Swift 2 iOS apps can only run on Xcode 7 which is not officially compatible with macOS Sierra or above (the most disturbing thing being the Instruments profiling tool will always crash ... (more…)

A year ago I analyzed how many built-in apps in iOS 10.1 and macOS 10.12 were using Swift: Apple’s use of Swift in iOS 10.1 and macOS 10.12. (more…)

In his excellent interview with the Accidental Tech Podcast, Chris Lattner defended the goal of Swift being suitable to both beginner and advanced programmers. He cites progressive disclosure, a design philosophy that is often employed in GUI applications...