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.
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.
We are likely looking at over 50 million active lines of code to open a garage door…
The Swift OpenAPI Generator has reached its stable 1.0 release, enabling type-safe code generation for HTTP client and server operations from OpenAPI 3.0 and 3.1 documents.
Apple has outlined changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store to meet the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) requirements. These changes affect developers distributing apps in the 27 EU member countries, introducing new options while maintaining security and privacy.
Continuing my exploration of HTMLKit, I find its potential quite promising. In this post, I delve deeper into leveraging its capabilities to seamlessly integrate HTML into Swift.
Continuing my exploration of HTMLKit, I find its potential quite promising. In this post, I delve deeper into leveraging its capabilities to seamlessly integrate HTML into Swift.
We've just released Vapor 4.90.0 which contains a fix for a security vulnerability in Vapor's URI parsing.
Swift 5.9 enhances debugging with an out-of-process crash handler that provides detailed backtraces, interactive inspection, and just-in-time debugging, improving on the limited crash messages of prior versions.
Swift.org now has a new top-level Packages page. This page helps users explore the Swift package ecosystem. It lists common categories such as server, networking, testing, and logging.
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.
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.
The Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG) has released its 2023 annual update, reflecting on community progress and outlining priorities for the year.
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.
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”.
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.