Tag
26 articles
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. The Vapor web framework recently turned ten and celebrated with Vapor Week! We’ve invited one of the authors of Vapor as this month’s guest contributor: Hi, I’m Tim from the Vapor Core Team! 10…
The Kotlin Toolchain is a unified entry point into Kotlin. It lets you build JVM, Android, iOS, multiplatform, and server side applications with a simple declarative configuration. With the release of v0.13, we now recommend the Kotlin Toolchain for most new Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) projects. Earlier this year, we…
Starting with IntelliJ IDEA 2026.3 and Android Studio Rabbit 2 & 124; 2026.2.2, we’re discontinuing Swift language IDE features in the Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) plugin. This includes editing, syntax highlighting, and navigation within Swift files and between Swift and Kotlin. Running iOS applications and debugging…
Swift 6.4 is now available. Swift aims to be a great choice across the stack, from apps and servers to systems code, embedded devices, and the browser. This release deepens that support, and makes everyday code easier to write. Highlights include: Swift Build is now the default in Swift Package Manager , so your…
When your Swift program hits a breakpoint and stops so you can inspect it, the debugger’s expression evaluator has to find the exact Swift module your code was built from. Until now, that lookup wasn’t always precise. The upcoming Swift 6.4 release will include changes, begun in Swift 6.3, that address this by…
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. Here’s an update from guest contributor Simon Leeb on Swift’s progress as a language for web scenarios: Hi, Simon here! I am the creator of the elementary swift project, a collection of packages…
Embedded Swift is a subset of Swift that’s designed for low resource usage, making it capable of running on constrained environments like microcontrollers. Using a special compilation mode, Embedded Swift produces significantly smaller binaries than regular Swift. While a subset of the full language, the vast…
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. Swift is built by contributors working on far more than the language and compiler. Alexander Sandberg reflects on what that kind of contribution looks like, and why there’s a place for you too:…
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. June was an exciting month for Swift, featuring announcements at WWDC and community events around the globe. We invited the organizers of one of them to share with us: Hey, it’s Mikaela and…
Since its launch, Swift Package Index has become an essential part of the Swift ecosystem, helping developers discover quality packages, evaluate compatibility, and make informed decisions about dependencies. Started by Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt, the project currently indexes thousands of packages and serves as…
TrueType is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications. Familiar fonts like Helvetica, Garamond, and Monaco are all built on TrueType outlines. The format specifies a hinting interpreter intended to help outlines rasterize faithfully on low resolution…
The Swift Ecosystem Steering Group is excited to announce the creation of the Networking workgroup ! Workgroups are community led efforts, formally recognized by the project, to advance key areas of Swift. The primary goal is to guide the evolution of networking libraries, protocols, and APIs in the Swift ecosystem,…
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. To start, we’re focusing on some of the many local meetup groups sharing Swift content: Around the world, local meetup groups and conferences bring Swift developers together, and some even…
Goodnotes has been helping millions of users take handwritten notes on iPad for over a decade, earning recognition as Apple’s iPad App of the Year in 2022. Today, the same Swift code that powers our iOS app also runs seamlessly in web browsers through WebAssembly, delivering the exact same ink rendering and note…
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. The 1.0 release of valkey swift was recently announced on the Valkey blog . We’ve invited one of the authors to be this month’s guest contributor: Hi, I’m Adam Fowler, an open source developer…
You can now write Swift in a broader range of popular IDEs, including Cursor, VSCodium, AWS’s Kiro, and Google’s Antigravity. By leveraging VS Code extension compatibility, these editors tap directly into the Open VSX Registry, where the official Swift extension is now live . Swift has long supported development…
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. Swift 6.3 has been released , expanding Swift into new domains and improving developer ergonomics. A highlight of its release is work to improve cross platform build tooling. Owen Voorhees…
Swift is designed to be the language you reach for at every layer of the software stack. Whether you’re building embedded firmware, internet scale services, or full featured mobile apps, Swift delivers strong safety guarantees, performance control when you need it, and expressive language features and APIs. Swift 6.3…
TelemetryDeck is an app analytics service specifically for developers, designed to manage usage analytics that are anonymized, privacy focused, and really easy to use. TelemetryDeck is managing the data of over 16 million people every month, helping thousands of app publishers improve their products, and we’re doing…
Welcome to this edition of “What’s New in Swift,” where we share interesting projects and updates in the Swift community that deserve visibility to a broader audience. FOSDEM is the largest open source conference in the world, and this year Swift was featured in talks across multiple tracks and a dedicated pre…
