As WWDC 2024 approaches, Apple this week launched a new webpage with tutorials for developers learning the first steps on how to develop using Xcode, Swift, and Swift UI.

Apple introduced version 1.0 of Swift with the Golden Master of Xcode 6.0 for iOS in September 2014. Apple isn’t killing Objective-C, it will stay along with Swift.

Swift 6.2 improves concurrency and interoperability with C++ and Java, SwiftUI adds support for the new Liquid Glass design, and Xcode 26 extends to LLMs beyond ChatGPT.

However, ChatGPT was Apple’s choice at the end. Notably, Apple demoed Swift Assist, a coding assistant for Xcode, last year, but it wasn’t released widely.

Apple has released version 5.2 of its widely used Swift programming language for writing apps for the Mac, iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Apple's open-source Swift 5.2 programming ...