Joannis Orlandos
@joanniso.bsky.social
Dad, Swift Nerd and consultant - OpenSource Swift (Hummingbird, Swift Server, Android, Build & Packaging Workgroups).
Co-Founder @ wendy.sh
Co-Founder @ wendy.sh
Next Swift Server Workgroup meetup coming December 9th at 10:00 PST / 18:00 GMT / 19:00 CET!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iYx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iYx...
Swift Server Side Meetup #4
YouTube video by Swift Server Side
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Next Swift Server Workgroup meetup coming December 9th at 10:00 PST / 18:00 GMT / 19:00 CET!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iYx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iYx...
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I can't wait to see where the community takes Swift on embedded platforms, microcontrollers like Doug G and Rauhul talk about here or even bigger and at the edge. www.swift.org/blog/embedde...
Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.3
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 S...
www.swift.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I can't wait to see where the community takes Swift on embedded platforms, microcontrollers like Doug G and Rauhul talk about here or even bigger and at the edge. www.swift.org/blog/embedde...
Check out this excellent @swifttoolkit.bsky.social conversation with Pierluigi Cifani on #Swiftlang for #android.
www.swifttoolkit.dev/posts/dc-pier
www.swifttoolkit.dev/posts/dc-pier
Dev Conversations #15: Pierluigi Cifani
Swift on Android: pros & cons and the technical challenges of using Swift beyond iOS.
www.swifttoolkit.dev
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Check out this excellent @swifttoolkit.bsky.social conversation with Pierluigi Cifani on #Swiftlang for #android.
www.swifttoolkit.dev/posts/dc-pier
www.swifttoolkit.dev/posts/dc-pier
This would be so nice to improve the developer experience around non-Swift packages.
forums.swift.org/t/expose-sys...
forums.swift.org/t/expose-sys...
Expose SystemPackageProvider
SwiftPM today supports specifying system packages as being provided by a package manager (apt, winget, yum and brew). While we can record this information in our Package.swift, it's not used in any to...
forums.swift.org
November 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
This would be so nice to improve the developer experience around non-Swift packages.
forums.swift.org/t/expose-sys...
forums.swift.org/t/expose-sys...
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Next Do iOS is changing gear, looking at multi-platform development with Swift. We have @joanniso.bsky.social with “Cross-Platform Swift - Reusing Code between iOS and Android” #doios
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Next Do iOS is changing gear, looking at multi-platform development with Swift. We have @joanniso.bsky.social with “Cross-Platform Swift - Reusing Code between iOS and Android” #doios
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How easy is it to learn about Swift on the server and has much changed in the year since Mikaela Caron gave the community a challenge to improve things? Well this year she's back to give us an update!
youtu.be/dAa9HmJEGfA
youtu.be/dAa9HmJEGfA
Server-Side Swift: Surviving or Thriving? - Mikaela Caron
🎥 Recorded at the ServerSide.swift conference in London in 2025.
🙌 Sponsored by Broken Hands: https://www.brokenhands.io
🐥 Twitter: https://twitter.com/swiftserverconf
🐘 Mastodon:…
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
How easy is it to learn about Swift on the server and has much changed in the year since Mikaela Caron gave the community a challenge to improve things? Well this year she's back to give us an update!
youtu.be/dAa9HmJEGfA
youtu.be/dAa9HmJEGfA
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My talk from #ServerSideSwift is live!!
And I’m announcing a new website I’m still working on called LearnSwift .space to provide more content for the Swift community on using Swift outside of Apple platforms
LearnSwift.space
And I’m announcing a new website I’m still working on called LearnSwift .space to provide more content for the Swift community on using Swift outside of Apple platforms
LearnSwift.space
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
My talk from #ServerSideSwift is live!!
And I’m announcing a new website I’m still working on called LearnSwift .space to provide more content for the Swift community on using Swift outside of Apple platforms
LearnSwift.space
And I’m announcing a new website I’m still working on called LearnSwift .space to provide more content for the Swift community on using Swift outside of Apple platforms
LearnSwift.space
Swift on Android is going strong, some thanks to the existing Swift Server ecosystem being able to adapt quickly! However, we’ve also got much more brewing for Linux apps! Stay tuned!
November 12, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Swift on Android is going strong, some thanks to the existing Swift Server ecosystem being able to adapt quickly! However, we’ve also got much more brewing for Linux apps! Stay tuned!
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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/
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/
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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/
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/
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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
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
GitHub - awslabs/swift-aws-lambda-runtime: Swift implementation of AWS Lambda Runtime
Swift implementation of AWS Lambda Runtime. Contribute to awslabs/swift-aws-lambda-runtime development by creating an account on GitHub.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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
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
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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
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
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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
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
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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. ...
skip.tools
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
Just had a blast in the #swiftlang #android workgroup! A turn up of 10 new people looking to collaborate on making this happen 💪
This effort is completely open! If you're interested too - join our community!
This effort is completely open! If you're interested too - join our community!
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Just had a blast in the #swiftlang #android workgroup! A turn up of 10 new people looking to collaborate on making this happen 💪
This effort is completely open! If you're interested too - join our community!
This effort is completely open! If you're interested too - join our community!
💪 8 PRs for Swift libraries to support Windows and counting. Let's make this happen!
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
💪 8 PRs for Swift libraries to support Windows and counting. Let's make this happen!
Once I'm done helping run Swift on Windows, I'll focus on MLX for Linux/Windows!
November 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Once I'm done helping run Swift on Windows, I'll focus on MLX for Linux/Windows!
What's this? A Hummingbird app!! On Windows?!
November 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
What's this? A Hummingbird app!! On Windows?!
November 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Thanks to those who shared their amazing insights: @joanniso.bsky.social, Bruno Valente Pimentel, Natascha Fadeeva, Matteo Manferdini, Tomasz Lizer, Uladzislau Volchyk, @danielsaidi.bsky.social, @massicotte.org, Pierluigi Cifani and Wes Wickwire
Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #0108 is out!
Swift Officially Releases Android SDK
🚀 Subjects -> AsyncStream
📖 Uploading Asset in the Background
📁 Conforming to Protocols
🎢 Android Doesn’t Deserve Swift — But We Did It Anyway
😊 PureSQL
and more...
weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobman...
Swift Officially Releases Android SDK
🚀 Subjects -> AsyncStream
📖 Uploading Asset in the Background
📁 Conforming to Protocols
🎢 Android Doesn’t Deserve Swift — But We Did It Anyway
😊 PureSQL
and more...
weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobman...
Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #0108
Swift Officially Releases Android SDK
weekly.fatbobman.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Thanks to those who shared their amazing insights: @joanniso.bsky.social, Bruno Valente Pimentel, Natascha Fadeeva, Matteo Manferdini, Tomasz Lizer, Uladzislau Volchyk, @danielsaidi.bsky.social, @massicotte.org, Pierluigi Cifani and Wes Wickwire
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When you are an Android developer, every day is Xmas!
I personally wouldn’t use this for UI yet, but it is going to be great to share more code. Like having Android be a supported platform for amazing libraries you were itching to use every day, like SwiftGodot or SwiftTerm :-)
I personally wouldn’t use this for UI yet, but it is going to be great to share more code. Like having Android be a supported platform for amazing libraries you were itching to use every day, like SwiftGodot or SwiftTerm :-)
📣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 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
When you are an Android developer, every day is Xmas!
I personally wouldn’t use this for UI yet, but it is going to be great to share more code. Like having Android be a supported platform for amazing libraries you were itching to use every day, like SwiftGodot or SwiftTerm :-)
I personally wouldn’t use this for UI yet, but it is going to be great to share more code. Like having Android be a supported platform for amazing libraries you were itching to use every day, like SwiftGodot or SwiftTerm :-)
Curious for Swift on Android? There was a talk on it recently at NSSpain by Pierluigi. He's already been using Swift on Android for a while - so experienced in the topic!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIGl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIGl...
Android Doesn’t Deserve Swift—But We Did It Anyway - Pierluigi Cifani
YouTube video by NSSpain
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Curious for Swift on Android? There was a talk on it recently at NSSpain by Pierluigi. He's already been using Swift on Android for a while - so experienced in the topic!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIGl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIGl...
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Swift SDK for Android (preview)!
* Blog post: www.swift.org/blog/nightly...
* Getting Started guide: www.swift.org/documentatio...
* Example repository: github.com/swiftlang/sw...
* Forums post: forums.swift.org/t/announcing...
* Blog post: www.swift.org/blog/nightly...
* Getting Started guide: www.swift.org/documentatio...
* Example repository: github.com/swiftlang/sw...
* Forums post: forums.swift.org/t/announcing...
📣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 8:23 PM
Swift SDK for Android (preview)!
* Blog post: www.swift.org/blog/nightly...
* Getting Started guide: www.swift.org/documentatio...
* Example repository: github.com/swiftlang/sw...
* Forums post: forums.swift.org/t/announcing...
* Blog post: www.swift.org/blog/nightly...
* Getting Started guide: www.swift.org/documentatio...
* Example repository: github.com/swiftlang/sw...
* Forums post: forums.swift.org/t/announcing...
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A post from @joannis on the #Swift blog about the new preview of the Android SDK for Swift
www.swift.org/blog/nightly...
www.swift.org/blog/nightly...
Announcing the Swift SDK for Android
Swift has matured significantly over the past decade — extending from cloud services to Windows applications, browser apps, and microcontrollers. Swift powers apps and services of all kinds, and thank...
www.swift.org
October 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
A post from @joannis on the #Swift blog about the new preview of the Android SDK for Swift
www.swift.org/blog/nightly...
www.swift.org/blog/nightly...
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Congratulations- to you and the whole gang who've been working tirelessly to enable this! It's such a brilliant add to Swift primarily driven from the community!
October 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Congratulations- to you and the whole gang who've been working tirelessly to enable this! It's such a brilliant add to Swift primarily driven from the community!