Norway Road Trip Day 04
Day 4 of the road trip my brother and I made in Norway.
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Norway Road Trip Day 03
Day 3 of the road trip my brother and I made in Norway.
Norway Road Trip Day 02
Day 2 of the road trip my brother and I made in Norway.
Norway Road Trip Day 01
Day 1 of the road trip my brother and I made in Norway.
Monthly update #0338 • June 2018
Monthly update 338 • June 2018 • 2018-06-01 - 2018-06-30
Monthly update #0337 • May 2018
Monthly update 337 • May 2018 • 2018-05-01 - 2018-05-31
Introducing Related Projects to Swift Forums
The Swift community continues to expand, with developers increasingly relying on ecosystem projects to streamline app development for specific tasks. To foster better interaction, Swift Forums has introduced a new top-level category called Related Projects.
Monthly update #0336 • April 2018
Monthly update 336 • April 2018 • 2018-04-01 - 2018-04-30
Swift Community-Hosted Continuous Integration
Swift.org has expanded its continuous integration testing system to include community-hosted nodes for additional platforms.
Reimplementation of Implicitly Unwrapped Optionals
Swift 4.1 reimplements implicitly unwrapped optionals (IUOs) so they act as regular optionals with a flag that allows automatic unwrapping when needed, rather than as a distinct type.
Monthly update #0335 • March 2018
Monthly update 335 • March 2018 • 2018-03-01 - 2018-03-31
Swift 4.1 Released!
Apple released Swift 4.1 as a minor update that maintains source compatibility with Swift 4.0. It adds generics features such as conditional conformance and synthesised Equatable and Hashable support.
Food Rules by Michael Pollan
In Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, Michael Pollan simplifies the complex world of nutrition into easy-to-follow tips for eating well.
Monthly update #0334 • February 2018
Monthly update 334 • February 2018 • 2018-02-01 - 2018-02-28
Swift 4.2 Release Process
Swift 4.2 serves as a step towards ABI stability in Swift 5, incorporating ABI changes for performance, bug fixes, and targeted improvements to compile-time speed.
Code Size Optimization Mode in Swift 4.1
Swift 4.1 adds a new optimisation mode called -Osize. This mode helps reduce code size by 5 to 30 percent in some projects.
Monthly update #0333 • January 2018
Monthly update 333 • January 2018 • 2018-01-01 - 2018-01-31
Swift Forums Now Open!
The Swift project has moved its main discussions from mailing lists to Swift Forums. The old mailing lists are shut down and archived, with their content imported into the new system.
Conditional Conformance in the Standard Library
Swift 4.1 adds conditional conformances, which let generic types like Array and Optional conform to protocols such as Equatable or Hashable only when their elements do.
Monthly update #0332 • December 2017
Monthly update 332 • December 2017 • 2017-12-01 - 2017-12-31
Origin by Dan Brown
Dan Brown’s Origin follows Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon as he investigates the murder of a tech billionaire in Bilbao, Spain, who claims to have solved humanity’s biggest questions...
Monthly update #0331 • November 2017
Monthly update 331 • November 2017 • 2017-11-01 - 2017-11-30
The Midnight Line by Lee Child
In The Midnight Line, Reacher finds a West Point ring in a pawn shop and tracks its owner, a female veteran caught in Wyoming’s opioid trade.
Monthly update #0330 • October 2017
Monthly update 330 • October 2017 • 2017-10-01 - 2017-10-31
Swift 4.1 Release Process
Swift 4.1 is a source-compatible update to Swift 4.0 that adds minor language enhancements, improves the Swift Package Manager and Linux support, and includes quality fixes to the compiler and standard library, but it lacks binary compatibility due to ABI stabilisation work for Swift 5.