Swift 6.1 Released
Swift 6.1 introduces enhancements to improve productivity and data-race safety, extending the nonisolated keyword to types and extensions for better concurrency control and improving task group type inference.
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Introducing swiftly 1.0
Apple has announced the stable 1.0 release of swiftly, a Swift version manager now officially part of the Swift toolchain, hosted under the GitHub swiftlang organisation, supporting macOS and Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora.
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The new Vapor Toolbox
The Vapor Toolbox has been rewritten using Swift 6, replacing deprecated subcommands with a focus on the new command for creating Vapor projects from templates.
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Model Context Protocol (MCP)
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an emerging open-source standard from Anthropic, designed to standardise AI integration with external tools, data sources, and services, addressing the M × N problem of custom integrations by transforming it into an M + N solution, similar to the Language Server Protocol (LSP).
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How Swift's server support powers Things Cloud
The Things Cloud service, powering the Things task manager app, has transitioned to a Swift-based architecture, replacing a legacy Python 2 and Google App Engine system that suffered from slow response times and high memory usage.
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Ollama
Apple introduced Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2024, but its delayed rollout has left its, AI for the rest of us, promise unfulfilled, while Ollama offers a robust solution for running large language models (LLMs) locally on Macs, likened to Docker for LLMs.
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Introducing gRPC Swift 2
The Swift Server Workgroup announced gRPC Swift 2, a major update enhancing the gRPC framework with modern Swift concurrency features like async/await for a more intuitive developer experience.
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Updating the Visual Studio Code extension for Swift
The Swift team has officially released a new, fully supported Swift extension for Visual Studio Code, now available on the extension marketplace.
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The Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies
Apple has open-sourced Swift Build, a powerful build engine used by Xcode, now available for Linux and Windows, to provide a consistent and efficient build experience across Swift’s growing ecosystem.
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op run
The 1Password CLI (op) offers a robust solution to manage secrets in Swift development, addressing the limitations of traditional .env files.
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Embracing the Ecosystem
The upcoming Vapor 5 release embraces the modern Swift ecosystem by integrating key packages, with JWTKit v5 leading the way by adopting Swift 6, Swift Testing, Benchmark, and Swift Crypto, eliminating BoringSSL to improve build times and leveraging Swift Concurrency.
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Announcing Swift 6
Swift 6 is a major release expanding the language’s reach with full data-race safety via an opt-in language mode, typed throws for precise error handling, and non-copyable type support in generics for low-level performance.
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The Future of Vapor
After over four years and nearly 400 releases, Vapor 4 is transitioning to maintenance mode, with Vapor 5 now in development to leverage Swift 6’s capabilities and modernise the framework.
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Introducing Oblivious HTTP support in Swift
Apple has introduced SwiftNIO Oblivious HTTP, a new open-source package implementing provisional support for Oblivious HTTP, enhancing client privacy by preventing servers from identifying request sources through encryption and a trusted third-party relay.
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Nerdy internals of an Apple text editor
A lovely deep dive in TextView and related API's. Very well written, accompanied with good images/videos to explain something, absolutely worth the read.
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Announcing Swift Homomorphic Encryption
Apple has announced swift-homomorphic-encryption, a new open-source Swift package that brings Homomorphic Encryption (HE) to Swift.
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Plotting a Path to a Package Ecosystem without Data Race Errors
Swift 6 introduces compile-time data race safety checks for code opting into the Swift 6 language mode, significantly reducing crashes and performance issues, but full benefits require ecosystem-wide adoption.
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New GitHub Organization for the Swift Project
The Swift programming language is migrating to a dedicated GitHub organisation at GitHub.com/swiftlang, reflecting its growing versatility and community maturity beyond Apple’s ecosystems.
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Update on privacy in Apple's ecosystem 2024
Every year, WWDC showcases Apple’s commitment to user privacy, and 2024 is no exception. I watched four sessions totalling about 1 hour and 20 minutes, and I’m excited to share the highlights of Apple’s privacy advancements.
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On Fluent Models and Sendable warnings
Since FluentKit 1.48.0, users have encountered a warning about mutable stored properties in Sendable-conforming Model classes due to Swift’s concurrency requirements and property wrapper limitations.
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Get Started with Embedded Swift on ARM and RISC-V Microcontrollers
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.
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SSWG 2024 Annual Update
The Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG) 2024 annual update highlights 2023 achievements and sets goals for the coming year.
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Writing GNOME Apps with Swift
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.
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Introducing the Benchmark Package: Complementing Unit Tests with Performance Checks
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.
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Byte-sized Swift: Building Tiny Games for the Playdate
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.
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