Swift Language
@swift.org
Swift is a general-purpose programming language that's fast, modern, safe, and a joy to write. Designed for all, developed in the open.
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
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
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
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...
🧪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
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...
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
June 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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
Now you can use your Mac for developing Linux-based server components with Swift, using the new Swift-based container tools. Learn more and download at: github.com/apple/contai...
June 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Now you can use your Mac for developing Linux-based server components with Swift, using the new Swift-based container tools. Learn more and download at: github.com/apple/contai...
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...
June 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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...
When Things rebuilt their server backend with Swift, they saw improved code reuse, rock-solid stability, and a fourfold speed boost when processing sync requests @things.app #ServersideSwift culturedcode.com/things/blog/...
May 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
When Things rebuilt their server backend with Swift, they saw improved code reuse, rock-solid stability, and a fourfold speed boost when processing sync requests @things.app #ServersideSwift culturedcode.com/things/blog/...
Introducing Swift OPA, which allows you to keep service policies decoupled from service code, giving your security and compliance teams the flexibility they need to manage services built in Swift. @openpolicyagent.bsky.social blog.openpolicyagent.org/introducing-...
May 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Introducing Swift OPA, which allows you to keep service policies decoupled from service code, giving your security and compliance teams the flexibility they need to manage services built in Swift. @openpolicyagent.bsky.social blog.openpolicyagent.org/introducing-...
As the Swift ecosystem grows, we're adding a steering group to help us all coordinate efforts around package and tool development. More here: forums.swift.org/t/announcing...
May 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
As the Swift ecosystem grows, we're adding a steering group to help us all coordinate efforts around package and tool development. More here: forums.swift.org/t/announcing...
We're excited by this year's summer of code projects! ⛱️🧑💻They focus on improving Swift tooling and language interoperability, from VSCode to Java interop. Check them out here: forums.swift.org/t/gsoc-2025-... #GSOC25
May 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
We're excited by this year's summer of code projects! ⛱️🧑💻They focus on improving Swift tooling and language interoperability, from VSCode to Java interop. Check them out here: forums.swift.org/t/gsoc-2025-... #GSOC25
📰 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!
March 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
📰 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!
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...
March 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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...
📦📅 Package of the week: swift-zip-archive 📅📦
Compress or uncompress 🪗 content in just a couple of lines of code with this package, now supported on Windows and Linux as well as Apple platforms, and Swift 6 support! 👏 swiftpackageindex.com/adam-fowler/...
Compress or uncompress 🪗 content in just a couple of lines of code with this package, now supported on Windows and Linux as well as Apple platforms, and Swift 6 support! 👏 swiftpackageindex.com/adam-fowler/...
March 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
📦📅 Package of the week: swift-zip-archive 📅📦
Compress or uncompress 🪗 content in just a couple of lines of code with this package, now supported on Windows and Linux as well as Apple platforms, and Swift 6 support! 👏 swiftpackageindex.com/adam-fowler/...
Compress or uncompress 🪗 content in just a couple of lines of code with this package, now supported on Windows and Linux as well as Apple platforms, and Swift 6 support! 👏 swiftpackageindex.com/adam-fowler/...
Students -- how would you like to spend the summer contributing to Swift while working with mentors from the Swift team? Lots of great projects to work on, from improving VSCode integration to compiler development. More at: forums.swift.org/t/gsoc-2025-... #GSOC
March 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Students -- how would you like to spend the summer contributing to Swift while working with mentors from the Swift team? Lots of great projects to work on, from improving VSCode integration to compiler development. More at: forums.swift.org/t/gsoc-2025-... #GSOC
📦📅 Package of the week: swift-mustache 📅📦
swift-mustache is a powerful templating engine that enables you to generate content by applying a template to your data. Easy to use and effective anywhere you're generating text or source code. #Mustache swiftpackageindex.com/hummingbird-...
swift-mustache is a powerful templating engine that enables you to generate content by applying a template to your data. Easy to use and effective anywhere you're generating text or source code. #Mustache swiftpackageindex.com/hummingbird-...
February 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
📦📅 Package of the week: swift-mustache 📅📦
swift-mustache is a powerful templating engine that enables you to generate content by applying a template to your data. Easy to use and effective anywhere you're generating text or source code. #Mustache swiftpackageindex.com/hummingbird-...
swift-mustache is a powerful templating engine that enables you to generate content by applying a template to your data. Easy to use and effective anywhere you're generating text or source code. #Mustache swiftpackageindex.com/hummingbird-...
When the lights flash, it's a win! @ryantoken.com starts the week off with a great article on serverless Swift -- connecting his smart light bulbs to a backend running in AWS Lambda: www.ryantoken.com/blog/serverl...
February 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
When the lights flash, it's a win! @ryantoken.com starts the week off with a great article on serverless Swift -- connecting his smart light bulbs to a backend running in AWS Lambda: www.ryantoken.com/blog/serverl...