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Swift Language @swift.org · 08/08/2026

A busy summer for Swift continues. ☀️ In July: • Task Stealers land in Swift Concurrency’s runtime. • SwiftPM gets a package registry reference implementation. • A talk about explicit ownership at PLDI 2026. Read more: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...

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What's new in Swift: July 2026 Edition

Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community.

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Swift Package Index @swiftpackageindex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

Swift Package Index has joined Apple, and together we’re building a comprehensive package registry to serve the Swift community’s evolving needs. Read more: www.swiftpackageindex.com/blog/swif…

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Swift Language @swift.org · 12/06/2026

Memory-safe. 13% faster on average. ⚡️ The TrueType hinting interpreter in macOS and iOS has been rewritten in Swift, replacing the original C implementation. Pixel-perfect accuracy was validated across 27 million glyphs. And the results: www.swift.org/blog/migrati...

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Swift Language @swift.org · 04/06/2026

A unified networking stack for Swift, layered from low-level I/O primitives, through common protocols, to a modern HTTP client and server API. ⚙️ That's what the new Networking workgroup is building. Interested in contributing? Join us: www.swift.org/blog/announc...

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Announcing the Networking Workgroup

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 Sw...

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 02/05/2026

My favorite part of the latest digest? The two Embedded Swift talks it links to. One of them demos Swift on a Game Boy Advance!

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Swift Language @swift.org · 31/03/2026

Your digest of everything new in Swift has just landed! Read up on the latest release, community projects, evolution proposals, and videos from across the ecosystem: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...

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What's new in Swift: March 2026 Edition

Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community.

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Swift Language @swift.org · 31/01/2026

🗞️News from Swift: web apps, a new mail stack, 3D printing, embedded Swift updates, and some community events. Read all about it in the latest Swift blog post: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...

“After 20 years of shipping web applications, I have never seen fewer crashes and bugs make it to production. Performance has also been excellent, especially after moving our templates to Elementary. Our heaviest pages make it to the browser in less than 100ms.” (Nick Sloan, Studioworks)

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 26/01/2026

The @swift.org team is demonstrating a level of consistency that makes me believe they really want to see the Swift programming language thrive outside of the Apple ecosystem.

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 02/01/2026

Happy New Year, @swift.org crew! So happy to be back, I hope everyone enjoyed some time off.  If you're looking to catch up on Swift news, check out the December digest: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n... and let me know what you think!

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What's new in Swift: December 2025 Edition

Welcome to the latest digest of news from the Swift project.

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 10/11/2025

Excited about this release for the @swift.org and @temporal.io communities.

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Swift Language @swift.org · 05/11/2025

Indie developers now have more tools in their toolkit for building with Swift across platforms, thanks to Skip. Exciting to see a Swift community member building a business with the open source Swift SDK for Android. skip.tools/blog/skip-fu... #Android

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Skip Fuse is now free for Indie Developers!

Since the launch of the official Swift SDK for Android on swift.org last month, we have been overwhelmed by a surge of interest in building cross-platform apps using a single shared SwiftUI codebase. ...

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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

My talk from Server Side Swift is up! Talking about how languages make the trade-off between easy to write and fast at runtime, and how (shockingly!) I think #Swift strikes the right balance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz3h...

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Usability Meets Performance in Swift - Ben Cohen

YouTube video by SwiftServerConf

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Johannes Weiss @jweiss.io · 06/10/2025

Made a little thing that may help you profile your services from within their own process -- no extra privileges or tools required.

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Swift Language @swift.org · 06/10/2025

New tooling for profiling performance-critical services with Swift -- introducing the Swift Profile Recorder. More here: www.swift.org/blog/swift-p...

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Swift Language @swift.org · 25/09/2025

Introducing Swift Configuration, a new way to share and manage configuration for Swift. It's a smarter way to keep secrets safe and separate develop/test/prod environments. More here: forums.swift.org/t/introducin...

let config = ConfigReader(providers: [
EnvironmentVariablesProvider(),
try await JSONProvider(filePath: "/etc/config.json")
])
let httpTimeout = config.int(forKey: "http.timeout", default: 60)
print(httpTimeout) // prints 15

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Swift Language @swift.org · 24/09/2025

Ahead of next week's ServerSide.swift conference in London, organizer and Swift server workgroup member @0xtim.bsky.social looks back at the growth of Swift as a platform for building server apps: www.swift.org/blog/swift-o...

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The Growth of the Swift Server Ecosystem

Nearly ten years ago, Swift was open sourced and an official runtime for Linux was released. I’ve been involved with Swift on the server since almost the very beginning, originally picking it up as a ...

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 17/09/2025

Two weeks until @serversideswift.info at the Science Museum in London! Looking forward to joining in-person and connecting with the community. #swiftlang

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Swift Language @swift.org · 16/09/2025

Swift 6.2 is here, including so much 🆕🥳: ⏩Approachable concurrency 🦺Opt-in strict memory safety 📦WebAssembly support 🏃Faster build perf for macros 🐞Enhanced async debugging 📚Inline stack-based arrays 🚇Subprocess support 🧪Test result attachments www.swift.org/blog/swift-6...

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Swift 6.2 Released

We’re excited to announce Swift 6.2, a release aimed at making every Swift developer more productive, regardless of where or how you write code. From improved tooling and libraries to enhancements in ...

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Honza Dvorsky @czechboy0.dev · 15/09/2025

Excited to present at @serversideswift.info this year 🏎️ Last year was a lot of fun, and I can't wait to see y'all in person again 🙏

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 27/06/2025

Developing Swift on server? Less than two weeks to submit a talk for @serversideswift.info, a conference taking place October 2/3 in London, UK that @0xTim.bsky.social is organizing once again this year! CFP closes July 10, 2025 23:59 UTC. www.papercall.io/serversidesw... #SwiftLang

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PaperCall.io - ServerSide.swift 2025

ServerSide.swift is a framework-independent, server-side Swift conference, to bring all of the community toghether to learn and share. The conference is aimed at being a non-profit conference and…

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InfoQ @infoq.com · 16/06/2025

#Apple has migrated its global Password Monitoring service from #Java to #Swift! The result❓ 40% increase in throughput and significantly reduced memory usage - freeing up nearly 50% of previously allocated Kubernetes capacity. Learn more: bit.ly/4mZcs1T #InfoQ #Performance #SoftwareDevelopment

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Swift Language @swift.org · 04/06/2025

Ahem... 🆕

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Swift Language @swift.org · 03/06/2025

The story behind the Apple Password Monitoring service, handling multiple billions of requests per day from devices all over the world, which was recently rewritten in Swift: www.swift.org/blog/swift-a...

In comparison with the previous Java service, the updated backend delivers a 40% increase in performance, along with improved scalability, security, and availability.

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Sensory Ecology Lab @sensoryecology.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

“Our eyes could potentially be coaxed into a special repair mode above and beyond our natural self-healing abilities, according to a new study, thanks to the delivery of antibodies that trigger nerve cell regeneration in the retina.” #scicomm #neuroskyence www.sciencealert.com/experimental... 🧪 🧠 👁️

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Experimental Drug Tested in Mice Repairs The Eye to Restore Vision

Our eyes could potentially be coaxed into a special repair mode above and beyond our natural self-healing abilities, according to a new study, thanks to the delivery of antibodies that trigger nerve c...

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 27/04/2025

Sunday morning vibe: Alt-J (2012 tiny desk concert) www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKdp...

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Alt-J: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 05/04/2025

Saw Jake Xerxes Fussell in concert tonight in Novato! Great show.

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Swift Language @swift.org · 31/03/2025

📰 Announcing Swift 6.1 📰 With ergonomic improvements to concurrency, simpler Objective-C interop, productivity and package improvements: swift.org/blog/swift-6... Install with Xcode 16.3 or the new swiftly version manager!

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Swift Language @swift.org · 26/03/2025

Spring is here (in the northern hemisphere) 🪺🐣 -- and what could be a better time for some code tidying? Fortunately Periphery is here to rescue us, building unused code detection on top of swift-syntax. Have you tried it? github.com/peripheryapp...

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 06/03/2025

Thrilled to have rejoined Apple as a Senior Product Manager for Swift!

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 01/02/2025

Standing room only in the #swiftlang DevRom at #fosdem! Starting at the top of the hour and live streaming online: live.fosdem.org/watch/k4401

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FOSDEM 2025 - Stream K.4.401

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 01/02/2025

Up next at #fosdem in building K! “Incremental Memory Safety in an Established Software Stack. Lessons learned from Swift” #swiftlang

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Google’s #opensource program office is hiring! We’re looking for people who have experience working at the intersection of open source and business, and who enjoy working with engineering and product teams to get things done (We also enjoy OSS puns and animal memes) www.google.com/about/career...

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Developer Relations Engineer, Open Source Strategy — Google Careers

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 26/01/2025

A poem for the week ahead, [Traveler, your footprints], by Antonio Muchado www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58815/.... I particularly like the English translation that Jennifer Michael Hecht read on the The Gray Area podcast, which ended with “Traveler, there is no path, only a foam trail on the sea”

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[Traveler, your footprints]

Traveler, your footprints are the only road, nothing else. Traveler, there is no road; you make your own path as you walk. As you walk, you make your own road, and when you look back you see the path ...

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 25/01/2025

TIL: Lumon's office building in Severance is actually the Bell Labs Holmdel Complex en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_La...

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Bell Labs Holmdel Complex - Wikipedia

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 23/01/2025

Looking forward to being in Brussels for @fosdem.bsky.social, including the Swift DevRoom!

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 09/01/2025

From the homepage of Hacker News: "Swift for C++ Practitioners, Part 12: Move Semantics" by Doug Gregor www.douggregor.net/posts/swift-.... As a commenter noted, you may want to start with Part 1: www.douggregor.net/posts/swift-.... #swiftlang

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Swift for C++ Practitioners, Part 12: Move Semantics | Doug's Compiler Corner

Swift for C++ Practitioners, Part 12: Move Semantics

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 07/01/2025

Embedded Swift, Swift on Server, IoT, Cross-Platform Development, and more -- excited about the range of talks in the #swiftlang Developer Room at #fosdem next month

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 25/12/2024

First time having eggnog and the verdict is… that it’s delicious

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 21/12/2024

Earlier this year I briefly presented at GitHub's OSPO Advisory Board meeting about analyzing GitHub Data with BigQuery, which inspired this written tutorial: davelester.github.io/gharchive-bi.... Open to ideas and feedback on how to improve and expand the resource.

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Analyzing GitHub Data with BigQuery Using GH Archive

Examples Using BigQuery to Analyze GH Archive Data

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 17/12/2024

If you're interested in delving deeper into the design of recent #swiftlang technical directions, as well as the requirements that are driving their development, I highly recommend exploring the Swift vision documents:

github.com

swift-evolution/visions at main · swiftlang/swift-evolution

This maintains proposals for changes and user-visible enhancements to the Swift Programming Language. - swiftlang/swift-evolution

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 16/12/2024

Fantastic article in the latest issue of iOS Dev Weekly which features some of the work Luke Howard is doing to develop a hardware project that uses #swiftlang

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Issue 691

Can Swift, C/C++, Linux, Android, Dart, and Flutter all work together? They can! 🤖

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 09/12/2024

A new live album by Nils Frahm dropped last week music.apple.com/us/album/par...

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Paris by Nils Frahm on Apple Music

Album · 2024 · 10 Songs

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 03/12/2024

Discovered 'Repo Lockdown' a while ago — a GitHub Action for automating the closing and locking of Issues/PRs. Useful if you want your source available but aren't accepting community contributions. github.com/marketplace/actions/repo…

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Repo Lockdown - GitHub Marketplace

Immediately close and lock issues and pull requests

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Dave Lester @davelester.dev · 27/11/2024

Day 2 of yoga at home: ✅ Feeling accomplished! My goal is to stay consistent through the end of the year.

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