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 ...

i mean, what's great about it? it seems to me that the syntax is a little outdated when java's lurking around. why did apple make objective-c the native lanugague for Cocoa and java a second class ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

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, ...

The framework AppleScriptObjC allows users to write scripts with an interesting fusion of the AppleScript and Objective-C languages. Specifically, Apple describes the framework as: AppleScriptObjC ...