Today we’re building another world-changing technology, machine intelligence. We know that it will affect the world in profound ways, change how the economy works, and have knock-on effects we can’t predict.
Swift 3.1 aims to maintain source compatibility with Swift 3.0 while adding minor language enhancements, improvements to the Swift Package Manager, better Linux support, and general fixes to the compiler and standard library, with a planned release in spring 2017.
Monthly update 319 • November 2016 • 2016-11-01 - 2016-11-30
Night School revisits 1996, with Reacher in Hamburg teaming with CIA and NSA agents to stop a jihadist selling a nuclear weapon.
Monthly update 318 • October 2016 • 2016-10-01 - 2016-10-31
Swift grew popular for server use after its Linux port, sparking frameworks like Kitura, Vapor, Perfect, and Zewo.
Whole-module optimisation boosts Swift code performance by compiling all files in a module together, which allows the compiler to inline functions, specialise generics for specific types, and remove unused code across files.
Monthly update 317 • September 2016 • 2016-09-01 - 2016-09-30
Quiet is a content blocker for Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
After every major macOS update (including the recent macOS Tahoe), many people open Terminal and try to use git or any other command-line tool.
Apple released Swift 3.0 as the first major version since the language became open source. This update brings big changes to the core language and standard library through many Swift Evolution proposals, but it does not work with code from Swift 2.2 or 2.3.
Omi, the mother of my father, died today. She was born in April 1942 and lived to the age of 74 years. She was the fun grandma that everyone in the family loved.
Monthly update 316 • August 2016 • 2016-08-01 - 2016-08-31
Jason Bourne (2016), directed by Paul Greengrass, brings back the lost agent. Matt Damon plays Bourne with hard eyes and quick fists. He fights in crowds and dark streets.
Monthly update 315 • July 2016 • 2016-07-01 - 2016-07-31
Person of Interest is an American crime drama series. It aired on CBS from 22 September 2011 to 21 June 2016. Jonathan Nolan created it. The show stars Jim Caviezel as John Reese, a former CIA agent thought dead. Michael Emerson plays Harold Finch, a rich tech expert.
Apple introduced Xcode Playground Support as part of the open source Swift community, which lets developers build a toolchain to use the latest Swift features in Xcode 8 playgrounds.
Monthly update 314 • June 2016 • 2016-06-01 - 2016-06-30
Apple announced Developer Preview 1 of Swift 3.0, which offers stable builds to test the work-in-progress version before the final release.
Apple announced Swift 2.3 as a minor update from Swift 2.2.1. The main change is that it works with Apple’s macOS 10.12, iOS 10, watchOS 3, and tvOS 10 SDKs, and it updates LLVM and Clang to match Swift 3.
Monthly update 313 • May 2016 • 2016-05-01 - 2016-05-31
When you use Homebrew to manage software on your Mac, you often want to know exactly what you have installed. This helps when you set up a new computer or share your setup with others.
Swift 3.0 marks a major release without source compatibility to Swift 2.2. It brings key changes to the language and standard library through the evolution process.
Monthly update 312 • April 2016 • 2016-04-01 - 2016-04-30
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), directed by Michael Bay, shows the attack on a US compound in Libya in 2012 AD. John Krasinski plays Jack Silva, a guard who fights to stay alive.