Swift releases, the language, Swift on the server, and tooling.
Swift is designed to be the language you reach for at every layer of the software stack. Whether you’re building embedded firmware, internet-scale services, or full-featured mobile apps, Swift delivers strong safety guarantees, performance control when you need it, and expressive…
Swift 6.4 is now available. Swift aims to be a great choice across the stack, from apps and servers to systems code, embedded devices, and the browser. This release deepens that support, and makes everyday code easier to write. Highlights include: Swift Build is now the default…
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. The Vapor web framework recently turned ten and celebrated with Vapor Week! We’ve invited one of the authors of Vapor as this month’s guest contributor: Hi…
When your Swift program hits a breakpoint and stops so you can inspect it, the debugger’s expression evaluator has to find the exact Swift module your code was built from. Until now, that lookup wasn’t always precise. The upcoming Swift 6.4 release will include changes, begun in…
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. Here’s an update from guest contributor Simon Leeb on Swift’s progress as a language for web scenarios: Hi, Simon here! I am the creator of the…
Embedded Swift is a subset of Swift that’s designed for low resource usage, making it capable of running on constrained environments like microcontrollers. Using a special compilation mode, Embedded Swift produces significantly smaller binaries than regular Swift. While a subset…
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. Swift is built by contributors working on far more than the language and compiler. Alexander Sandberg reflects on what that kind of contribution looks like…
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. June was an exciting month for Swift, featuring announcements at WWDC and community events around the globe. We invited the organizers of one of them to…
Since its launch, Swift Package Index has become an essential part of the Swift ecosystem, helping developers discover quality packages, evaluate compatibility, and make informed decisions about dependencies. Started by Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt, the project currently…
TrueType is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications. Familiar fonts like Helvetica, Garamond, and Monaco are all built on TrueType outlines. The format specifies a hinting interpreter intended to help outlines…
The Swift Ecosystem Steering Group is excited to announce the creation of the Networking workgroup! Workgroups are community-led efforts, formally recognized by the project, to advance key areas of Swift. The primary goal is to guide the evolution of networking libraries…
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. To start, we’re focusing on some of the many local meetup groups sharing Swift content: Around the world, local meetup groups and conferences bring Swift…
Goodnotes has been helping millions of users take handwritten notes on iPad for over a decade, earning recognition as Apple’s iPad App of the Year in 2022. Today, the same Swift code that powers our iOS app also runs seamlessly in web browsers through WebAssembly, delivering the…
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. The 1.0 release of valkey-swift was recently announced on the Valkey blog. We’ve invited one of the authors to be this month’s guest contributor: Hi, I’m…
You can now write Swift in a broader range of popular IDEs, including Cursor, VSCodium, AWS’s Kiro, and Google’s Antigravity. By leveraging VS Code extension compatibility, these editors tap directly into the Open VSX Registry, where the official Swift extension is now live.…
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. Swift 6.3 has been released, expanding Swift into new domains and improving developer ergonomics. A highlight of its release is work to improve…
TelemetryDeck is an app analytics service specifically for developers, designed to manage usage analytics that are anonymized, privacy-focused, and really easy to use. TelemetryDeck is managing the data of over 16 million people every month, helping thousands of app publishers…
Welcome to this edition of “What’s New in Swift,” where we share interesting projects and updates in the Swift community that deserve visibility to a broader audience. FOSDEM is the largest open source conference in the world, and this year Swift was featured in talks across…
We are excited to announce the 1.0 release of Swift System Metrics, a Swift package that collects process-level system metrics like CPU utilization time and memory usage. Swift System Metrics runs on both Linux and macOS, providing a common API across platforms. Swift System…
A Reddit thread earlier this month asked about building web apps with Swift. For this edition of “What’s new in Swift,” we invited a developer to share their experience: Hi, I’m Nick Sloan. I’m the head of engineering at Studioworks, a platform that makes it easy and fun to run…
