Swift’s design emphasises seamless interoperability with other languages, particularly C and C++, by embedding clang to avoid the performance and boilerplate costs of traditional C-based Foreign Function Interfaces (FFI) like libffi.
We've just released Vapor 4.84.2 which contains a fix for a security vulnerability in Vapor's error handling.
Monthly update 401 • September 2023 • 2023-09-01 - 2023-09-30
Golda (2023), directed by Guy Nattiv, tells the story of Golda Meir during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Helen Mirren plays Meir with firm resolve and deep weariness. She leads Israel as armies attack.
Swift 5.9 enhances debugging with three key improvements to the compiler and LLDB. The p and po commands now use the faster dwim-print command, avoiding persistent result variables and enabling po to print Swift objects from raw addresses.
Swift 5.9 introduces a powerful macro system for expressive libraries, parameter packs for flexible generic APIs, and ownership features like consume and noncopyable types to optimize low-level code performance.
Monthly update 400 • August 2023 • 2023-08-01 - 2023-08-31
The Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG) has released its 2023 annual update, reflecting on community progress and outlining priorities for the year.
Monthly update 399 • July 2023 • 2023-07-01 - 2023-07-31
Social media shapes how we connect, share ideas, and learn from each other. Yet, too often, these platforms feel like walled gardens, controlled by companies that put profit before people. I believe decentralised services, like email or websites, are the answer.
Cousin S and I went to see the movie Oppenheimer in the Rembrandt Cinema here in Utrecht.
Apple announced Swift HTTP Types, a new open-source package providing shared, Swift-first currency types for HTTP operations, enhancing code sharing between clients and servers.
Monthly update 398 • June 2023 • 2023-06-01 - 2023-06-30
Creating 975 screenshots for the App Store is a daunting task if done manually. For my app, Quiet, I need screenshots for multiple devices and languages, and framing them nicely with labels adds even more work.
Apple released Swift OpenAPI Generator, a set of open-source libraries that automate HTTP communication for clients and servers using the OpenAPI specification.
This year, I watched four sessions totalling 1 hour and 15 minutes, and I’m excited to share a summary to save you the time. Here’s what’s new in Apple’s privacy landscape for 2023, built around their four core privacy pillars.
Over the years I became more convinced that onboarding flows were users are educated are not working. It is much better to educate people in context and when needed.
I loved how during the WWDC Keynote and The State of Union not once the term AI was used. AI is an hype word and could mean a lot of things. Love how Apple keeps saying “On Device Machine Learning”.
Monthly update 397 • May 2023 • 2023-05-01 - 2023-05-31
Swift 5.8 introduces a flexible mechanism to adopt upcoming features via the -enable-upcoming-feature compiler flag and the hasFeature() condition, allowing developers to incrementally prepare for Swift 6 while maintaining source compatibility.
The Vapor team is implementing Sendable annotations across its repositories, starting with a significant pull request, to enhance safety in Swift Concurrency, following a challenging but unsuccessful attempt to use actors for some internals.
Flutter, Google’s cross-platform framework, promises fast development for Android and iOS apps, but it comes with notable limitations.
The Vapor team announced a new update for Penny, their Discord bot, enhancing it to post Swift Evolution proposal updates in the #swift-evolution channel, with an option for users to follow these updates on their own servers.
Users can create a Personal Voice by reading along with a randomized set of text prompts to record 15 minutes of audio on iPhone or iPad.
My brother and his now wife got married today.