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Using Swift with Cocoa and Objective-C: Another Book From Apple

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There’s another book available from Apple, though it’s not yet in the iBookstore.  Using Swift with Cocoa and Objective-C gives practical information for calling Cocoa APIs from Swift and incorporating Swift into existing XCode projects, possibly alongside legacy Objective-C code.

There is also a section on porting Objective-C code to Swift, strongly suggesting that Apple is positioning Swift as a core part of the future of its development platform.

For now, the book can be downloaded from Apple as a PDF here.

Introducing the Swift Programming Language

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On June 2, 2014 at WWDC, Apple made a shocking announcement: the venerable Objective-C language, used by millions of developers worldwide to create applications and games for iPhones, and iPads, and Macs was being pushed aside for a new, more modern language:  Swift.

As of today, outside of a few privileged Apple employees, we are all Swift novices.  This is an amazing opportunity to get in at the ground floor of a turning point in the Apple development community.

This site will offer resources, tutorials, and a community for those learning this exciting new language.