Apple releases ‘noteworthy’ update to Swift programming language, new Xcode beta

Feb09

by Sindy Cator on February 9, 2015 at 7:14 pm

Even though Apple hasn’t shipped iOS 8.2 yet, the company today made available iOS 8.3 beta to developers. The update comes alongside a new build of Xcode which includes a number of changes to the Swift programming language. In a post to Apple’s Swift blog today, the company said that the Xcode release brings a “enhanced Swift compiler” along with new features like incremental code builds, faster executables, better diagnostics and a number of stability improvements. On the Swift side of things, there are a number of changes to the language which are meant to ensure “safe and predictable behavior” and…