Swift Language
Swift is a general-purpose programming language that's fast, modern, safe, and a joy to write. Designed for all, developed in the open.
- 🗞️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...
- 📽️ Lots of fun projects being showcased on the forums recently. Here are a few recent favorites... Check out forums.swift.org/c/community-... for more!
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- Windows developers, you're invited! 🪟 We just launched a Windows workgroup to make Swift even better on Windows: improving the toolchain, core packages, API bridging, and deployment experiences. Curious? Interested in contributing? You're welcome here. 👉 swift.org/blog/announcing-windows-workgroup/
- Your favorite C library, now with Swift superpowers. 🦸 New post: how to transform C APIs into idiomatic Swift, with enums, automatic reference counting, and argument-labeled methods. Best of all: no header changes needed, thanks to API notes! 🥳 www.swift.org/blog/improvi...
- 📚Check out this beautiful contribution by @peterfriese.dev: a typeset PDF of The Swift Programming Language book, our official reference to Swift, produced with Typst. Download and read the PDF here: github.com/peterfriese/... @typstapp.bsky.social
- "Build a balance bike, not training wheels." Doug Gregor's Swift Craft talk describes Swift's progressive disclosure: start with the simple stuff, reach for the advanced stuff when you need it, and never have to throw out what you've learned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=opqK...
- FOSDEM, the legendary open source gathering in Brussels, is coming soon, and we'd love to see you there! We've got multiple talks on Swift plus a pre-FOSDEM community meetup. Whether you're a longtime attendee or new to the event, come say hi! 👋 swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/ #FOSDEM
- Always interesting to see new Swift projects pop up on Hacker News. Here's one that's trending right now: github.com/tomasf/Cadova
- 🗓️2025 was a great year for Swift 🍾 Thank you all for choosing Swift. We're ending the year with a digest of what's been going on in the project and community recently. 🗞️ Read up here: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
- Exploring the Swift SDK for Android: updates on ongoing progress! www.swift.org/blog/explori...
- New in Swift 6.2.3, available both separately and as part of Xcode 26.2: a way to express enums that can add new cases over time without breaking compatibility: github.com/swiftlang/sw...
- Planning to attend FOSDEM next year? Here's a guide to some of the Swift talks and connection events that will take place: swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/
- ⚙️ Swift Configuration 1.0 is here! 🎉 No more juggling environment variables, config files, and command-line flags separately. One unified, type-safe API to read configuration from any source, and swap providers without refactoring your code. More here... www.swift.org/blog/swift-c...
- Swift 6.2.2 is here. This maintenance release includes minor bug fixes to keep your development running smoothly. Install via swiftly (Mac/Linux), Docker, or directly from our website. More here: forums.swift.org/t/announcing...
- 🎉 10 years of open source Swift! A decade ago today, we opened Swift to the world with a simple blog post: swift.org/blog/welcome What's grown since—thanks to an incredible community of contributors—has been extraordinary. Here's to the next ten years. 🧡
- 🎄This year's Advent of Code promises fun coding challenges for all! And if you haven't tried Swift before, it's a great way to get started. Join the Swift challenge board here: forums.swift.org/t/advent-of-... #AdventOfCode
- ⚙️ 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!
- 💡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...
- 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...
- Also check out Mads' talk at @serversideswift.info: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOH6...
- 📣 It's a landmark day for Swift, with three announcements that expand the ecosystem for developers everywhere. Here’s what’s new! 🧵
- 1️⃣ Swift comes to FreeBSD Swift is now available in preview for FreeBSD 14.3 and later. We want your feedback, bug reports, and contributions to make Swift great on FreeBSD! 🧑💻Read the announcement here: forums.swift.org/t/swift-on-f... #FreeBSD
- 2️⃣ Swift Student Challenge returns Calling all student developers! Submissions open February 2026. Start preparing now with code-along sessions and new tutorials. 🧑🎓https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/developers-decode-their-journeys-from-app-ideas-to-app-store/
- 3️⃣ AWS officially adopts Swift Lambda Runtime Amazon is now officially hosting the Swift AWS Lambda Runtime. This is a game-changer for building fast, efficient, and scalable serverless applications with Swift: now backed by AWS. github.com/awslabs/swif... #AWS
- 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
- 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...
- 📣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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 🧪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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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."
- 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-...
- Need a fast key/value datastore? The portfolio of Swift packages for building high-performance internet-scale services grew further this week with the preview of Valkey support: valkey.io/blog/valkey-...
- Packaging #Haskell code for easy Swift interoperability: easy thanks to these tips: alt-romes.github.io/posts/2025-0... @haskell.org
- Putting Swift in a box 📦 Tools for containerizing Swift, from a presentation at #OSSummit @linuxfoundation.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV0w...
- Announcing the Swift on Android Working Group, with the goal of establishing and maintaining Android as an officially supported platform for Swift. More here: forums.swift.org/t/announcing... #Android
