A little over a million people have used Swift Playgrounds since launch, Apple tells me. With today’s news, Apple is working with a handful of companies to bring hardware into the mix.

Apple today started accepting submissions for its annual Swift Student Challenge, a coding contest that tasks students with creating an interactive scene in the Swift Playgrounds app. Winners will ...

New in Swift Playgrounds 3.0 Beta: Playground Books can now contain directories of Swift code and resources that can be imported for use by any page in that book.

One unique component of Apple’s online WWDC this year is that the company opened a Swift Student Challenge where students could submit a Swift playground creation for special recognition. Today in a ...

According to Apple, Swift will provide a number of significant speed advantages to developers. A complex object sort, for example, will run 3.9x faster than an implementation of the same algorithm ...

Calling it "fast, modern, safe and interactive," Apple on Monday unveiled Swift, a brand new Xcode programming language that it says is superior to Objective-C.

Swift Playgrounds, Apple’s introductory programming application for iPad, has been updated today with a few notable features.. Today’s update brings the app to version 2.1 and adds support for ...