Apple on Tuesday released major updates to Swift Playgrounds 4, its app designed to teach newcomers how to write software using Apple's Swift programming language.

To do so, you need to learn a programming language. Fortunately, Apple has a language for writing apps for the Mac, iPhone, and iPad, and you can have fun learning it, as well. It’s called Swift.

Though I do want to learn Swift to build some of the random ideas I have, and I could definitely vibe-code my way through it, I actually want to learn the language.

But one part of the Swift story is often overlooked: Swift is a cross-platform programming language, with support for Linux, Android, and Windows.

Apple has a new programming language, Swift, intended to provide modern programming capabilities for Apple application development and streamline the building of applications. Featured as part of ...