Swift Language
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Swift is a general-purpose programming language that's fast, modern, safe, and a joy to write. Designed for all, developed in the open.
⚙️ Swift progress on embedded Swift, for memory-safe, fast code in resource-constrained environments. The latest updates are coming to Swift 6.3, and you can read more here: www.swift.org/blog/embedde... #IoT
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
⚙️ Swift progress on embedded Swift, for memory-safe, fast code in resource-constrained environments. The latest updates are coming to Swift 6.3, and you can read more here: www.swift.org/blog/embedde... #IoT
🧪 Our final post on this year’s GSoC projects focuses on work by Kelvin Bui to improve console output for testing: www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20... Thanks to all our contributors and mentors!
GSoC 2025 Showcase: Improved Console Output for Swift Testing
The Swift community participated in Google Summer of Code 2025, and we’ve recently been showcasing all of the projects and work accomplished here on the Swift blog. You can learn more by following the...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
🧪 Our final post on this year’s GSoC projects focuses on work by Kelvin Bui to improve console output for testing: www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20... Thanks to all our contributors and mentors!
💡In the third of our series highlighting Swift contributions from GSoC, Ahmed Elrefaey has been working on smarter inline documentation to help you while writing code in VS Code, coming soon: www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20... #GSOC
Swift GSoC 2025 highlight: Improved code completion for Swift
Our blog post series showcasing the Swift community’s participation in Google Summer of Code 2025 continues with our third update. Learn more about the projects and work accomplished:
www.swift.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 AM
💡In the third of our series highlighting Swift contributions from GSoC, Ahmed Elrefaey has been working on smarter inline documentation to help you while writing code in VS Code, coming soon: www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20... #GSOC
🚀 Swift is now officially supported on Amazon Linux 2023! This makes deploying Swift apps to AWS easier than ever. Try it: sudo dnf install swiftlang. The future of Swift keeps getting brighter... @awscloud.bsky.social #Linux docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023...
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
🚀 Swift is now officially supported on Amazon Linux 2023! This makes deploying Swift apps to AWS easier than ever. Try it: sudo dnf install swiftlang. The future of Swift keeps getting brighter... @awscloud.bsky.social #Linux docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023...
Managing long-running, stateful workflows in Swift just got a whole lot easier. The new Temporal SDK brings first-class support for building reliable, fault-tolerant applications. www.swift.org/blog/swift-t... @temporal.io
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Managing long-running, stateful workflows in Swift just got a whole lot easier. The new Temporal SDK brings first-class support for building reliable, fault-tolerant applications. www.swift.org/blog/swift-t... @temporal.io
Bridging the Swift and Java worlds opens the door to a richer set of server-side use cases for Swift. In our latest GSoC spotlight, Mads Odgaard describes his work to expand access to Swift/Java interop. #Java #GSOC www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...
GSoC 2025 Showcase: Extending Swift-Java Interoperability
This is the second post in our series showcasing the Swift community’s participation in Google Summer of Code 2025. Learn more about the projects and work accomplished:
www.swift.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Bridging the Swift and Java worlds opens the door to a richer set of server-side use cases for Swift. In our latest GSoC spotlight, Mads Odgaard describes his work to expand access to Swift/Java interop. #Java #GSOC www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...
📣 It's a landmark day for Swift, with three announcements that expand the ecosystem for developers everywhere. Here’s what’s new! 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
📣 It's a landmark day for Swift, with three announcements that expand the ecosystem for developers everywhere. Here’s what’s new! 🧵
We're featuring results of the summer GSoC projects over the next few days. Here's the first from Priyambada Roul, who worked on integrating Swiftly with the Swift VS Code extension: www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...
GSoC 2025 Showcase: Swiftly support in VS Code
Another successful year of Swift participation in Google Summer of Code recently came to an end, and we’d like to shine some light on the projects and work accomplished!
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November 6, 2025 at 5:54 AM
We're featuring results of the summer GSoC projects over the next few days. Here's the first from Priyambada Roul, who worked on integrating Swiftly with the Swift VS Code extension: www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...
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
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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November 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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
It's been a busy month for Swift, with lots of project updates to share. Here's a digest of the latest news: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
November 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
It's been a busy month for Swift, with lots of project updates to share. Here's a digest of the latest news: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
🧱Lots of progress towards a unified, open source, cross-platform build system for Swift 🏗️
Here's the latest project update: forums.swift.org/t/swiftpm-on...
Here's the latest project update: forums.swift.org/t/swiftpm-on...
October 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
🧱Lots of progress towards a unified, open source, cross-platform build system for Swift 🏗️
Here's the latest project update: forums.swift.org/t/swiftpm-on...
Here's the latest project update: forums.swift.org/t/swiftpm-on...
📣Announcing the first preview releases of Swift for Android, enabling you to build Android business logic with the same Swift that you use for Apple platforms. www.swift.org/blog/nightly... #Android
October 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
📣Announcing the first preview releases of Swift for Android, enabling you to build Android business logic with the same Swift that you use for Apple platforms. www.swift.org/blog/nightly... #Android
🎥First sessions from @serversideswift.info are now on YouTube! Watch Mona Dierickx explore the AWS SDK for Swift and Amazon Bedrock AI integration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDkb...
Unlock Generative AI for Swift Server-Side Development - Mona Dierickx
YouTube video by SwiftServerConf
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October 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
🎥First sessions from @serversideswift.info are now on YouTube! Watch Mona Dierickx explore the AWS SDK for Swift and Amazon Bedrock AI integration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDkb...
New tooling for profiling performance-critical services with Swift -- introducing the Swift Profile Recorder. More here: www.swift.org/blog/swift-p...
October 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
New tooling for profiling performance-critical services with Swift -- introducing the Swift Profile Recorder. More here: www.swift.org/blog/swift-p...
Swift isn't just for client apps: when Elytra moved from Node to Swift for their server code, they benefited from better performance and a unified codebase. More here: elytra.app/blog/2025/10...
October 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Swift isn't just for client apps: when Elytra moved from Node to Swift for their server code, they benefited from better performance and a unified codebase. More here: elytra.app/blog/2025/10...
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](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5mxqysxzortsy4ohbj5dfd6r/bafkreigukscbdcatvojbuqsijvk6pkc5djzbttby3dxzub2jul6xj4nqhy@jpeg)
September 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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...
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...
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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September 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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...
🧪Exit testing is new in Swift 6.2! Now it's easy to check whether code exits cleanly, and ensure it prints the expected output to the console. Here's a sssssuper sssssimple sssssample! 🐍 More at developer.apple.com/documentatio...
![let result = await #expect(
processExitsWith: .success,
observing: [\.standardOutputContent]
) {
snakify("This is precious...")
}
if let result {
let expected = Array("Thisssss isssss preciousssss...".utf8)
#expect(result.standardOutputContent.contains(expected))
}](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5mxqysxzortsy4ohbj5dfd6r/bafkreighiap2sh3fp6lt7c43gb6zg67yqe3uuwajgla6ndiwoybs45dcse@jpeg)
September 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
🧪Exit testing is new in Swift 6.2! Now it's easy to check whether code exits cleanly, and ensure it prints the expected output to the console. Here's a sssssuper sssssimple sssssample! 🐍 More at developer.apple.com/documentatio...
With ✨Swift 6.2 ✨, you can now target WebAssembly, including WASI support. Get started here: www.swift.org/documentatio... #Wasm
September 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
With ✨Swift 6.2 ✨, you can now target WebAssembly, including WASI support. Get started here: www.swift.org/documentatio... #Wasm
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...
⏩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...
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 ...
www.swift.org
September 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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...
⏩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...
Lots of exciting progress with Wasm on Swift, thanks to contributions from a wide variety of sources: forums.swift.org/t/swift-for-... #Wasm
Swift for Wasm: Q3 2025 Updates
Since official support for Wasm in Swift 6.2 was announced at WWDC this year, Swift contributors have done a huge amount of work. To provide better visibility and to track progress, here’s a list of n...
forums.swift.org
September 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Lots of exciting progress with Wasm on Swift, thanks to contributions from a wide variety of sources: forums.swift.org/t/swift-for-... #Wasm
Did you know that you can build a Swift package that supports multiple versions of Swift with different manifests? More on this and other advanced features of SwiftPM at our docs: docs.swift.org/swiftpm/docu...
Documentation
docs.swift.org
September 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Did you know that you can build a Swift package that supports multiple versions of Swift with different manifests? More on this and other advanced features of SwiftPM at our docs: docs.swift.org/swiftpm/docu...
Lots of cool new features coming to Swift 6.2 -- including a new opt-in strict memory safety checking mode that identifies and prevents any use of unsafe features. Read more about it here: github.com/swiftlang/sw...
September 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Lots of cool new features coming to Swift 6.2 -- including a new opt-in strict memory safety checking mode that identifies and prevents any use of unsafe features. Read more about it here: github.com/swiftlang/sw...
Writing Swift for tiny devices: an article on Playdate game Four Corners, recently rewritten in Swift for faster performance news.play.date/news/four-co...
TL;DR "Any game that is particularly demanding that you would typically want to write in C could probably be achieved with Swift."
TL;DR "Any game that is particularly demanding that you would typically want to write in C could probably be achieved with Swift."
Four Corners: the first game in Catalog written in Swift - Playdate News
Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.
news.play.date
September 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Writing Swift for tiny devices: an article on Playdate game Four Corners, recently rewritten in Swift for faster performance news.play.date/news/four-co...
TL;DR "Any game that is particularly demanding that you would typically want to write in C could probably be achieved with Swift."
TL;DR "Any game that is particularly demanding that you would typically want to write in C could probably be achieved with Swift."
Some wonderful contributions coming to #Swift from across the world, thanks to #GSOC25. Congratulations to Priyambada Roul for her work on improving Swiftly/VSCode integration. More here: forums.swift.org/t/gsoc-2025-...
[GSoC 2025] Bringing Swiftly support to VS Code
Hi Swift community! 👋 I am Priyambada Roul. I'm incredibly excited to share what I've been working on over the past three months as part of Google Summer of Code 2025 with Swift.org, alongside my men...
forums.swift.org
September 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Some wonderful contributions coming to #Swift from across the world, thanks to #GSOC25. Congratulations to Priyambada Roul for her work on improving Swiftly/VSCode integration. More here: forums.swift.org/t/gsoc-2025-...