Swift was introduced a couple of years ago at Apple's 2014 WWDC. Over the years I analyzed iOS to measure how many built-in applications were using Swift. iOS 9 released in 2015 included a single application written with Swift: Calculator. Since then this... (more…)

Computed properties are a great tool to keep your code clean and free of bugs you should use in any code you write. (more…)

Swift for TensorFlow is a deep learning platform that scales from mobile devices to clusters of hardware accelerators in data centers. It combines a language-integrated automatic differentiation system and multiple Tensor implementations within a modern a... (more…)

I'm helping with an iOS class for high school students during the summer. I used to do iOS development professionally a while ago, but that was back in the Objective-C days. I've done some minor stuff in Swift - and it doesn't seem particularly hard - but... (more…)

The move to ban certain Russian banks from the Swift financial messaging system is likely to hasten the expansion of Beijing’s own cross-border payment network, analysts say. (more…)