Apple has introduced a repository, swift-embedded-examples, showcasing Embedded Swift, a new experimental compilation mode for Swift targeting constrained microcontrollers like ARM and RISC-V, suitable for IoT and electronics projects.
Day 4 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. Time flew by and it is already time to fly back home.
Day 3 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. I walked around the old city centre of Stockholm, plenty to see.
Day 2 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. I also hiked the Tyresta Lakes Loop in Tyresta National Park...
Hiked the Tyresta Lakes Loop with a distance of 13.4 kilometres in Tyresta National Park.
Day 1 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. Flight was pleasant.
The Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG) 2024 annual update highlights 2023 achievements and sets goals for the coming year.
Adwaita for Swift is a new open-source package that enables Swift developers to create GNOME applications for Linux, leveraging Swift’s clean syntax, static typing, and result builders for a declarative, readable, and memory-safe user interface design.
The Swift Benchmark package, a new open-source tool developed due to the lack of suitable multi-platform benchmarking solutions, integrates performance testing into Swift’s ecosystem, emphasising the importance of speed alongside functionality in software development.
Swift is a versatile language for embedded systems due to its memory safety and ergonomics, as shown by porting games to the Playdate handheld console using the new embedded language mode.
In Terry Hayes’ The Year of the Locust, a sprawling espionage thriller, CIA Denied Access Area spy Ridley Kane ventures into the volatile borderlands of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan to extract an informant with critical intelligence on a rising terrorist threat.
Day 3 of the weekend trip to Barcelona. Today was actual nice weather, but unfortunately also the last day in Barcelona.
Day 2 of the weekend trip to Barcelona. Of course it is raining when I am in Barcelona...
Day 1 of the weekend trip to Barcelona.
Swift 6.0 introduces pack iteration, enhancing parameter packs from Swift 5.9 to simplify working with variable-length generic arguments.
Swift 5.10 achieves full data isolation in its concurrency model, enforcing compile-time checks to prevent data races when using the -strict-concurrency=complete flag, building on features like async/await and actors from Swift 5.5 and Sendable from Swift 5.7.
Monthly update 406 • February 2024 • 2024-02-01 - 2024-02-29
We’ll find out how the shape and the orientation of the airfoil helps airplanes remain airborne. We’ll also learn about the behavior and properties of air and other flowing matter.
The Swift Server Workgroup announced that Swift 5.10 will be the final release before Swift 6, prompting Vapor to plan Vapor 5, with JWTKit v5 as the first package to adopt modern Swift features like full Sendable compliance and Swift 6’s strict concurrency mode.
I started developing a new app, and it's been an exciting journey so far. Recently, I've begun utilising SwiftData, which is proving to be a fantastic tool for managing data within the app.
MLX Swift is a new open-source package from Apple that brings the MLX array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon to Swift. It gives researchers a Swift API to build and run models on Apple hardware.
Polyglot programmers exist, but good ones are like unicorns. They’re nearly impossible to find and when you do find them they’re insanely high in demand and very expensive.
A while ago I wrote about making Quiet open source. I've been getting quite a few emails from other indie app developers lately, who, like me, decided to make their apps open source but later wished they hadn't.
We are likely looking at over 50 million active lines of code to open a garage door…
Monthly update 405 • January 2024 • 2024-01-01 - 2024-01-31