“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)
🗞️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...
31.01.2026 00:21
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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.
26.01.2026 22:23
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What's new in Swift: December 2025 Edition
Welcome to the latest digest of news from the Swift project.
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!
02.01.2026 07:15
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Excited about this release for the @swift.org and @temporal.io communities.
10.11.2025 22:46
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Usability Meets Performance in Swift - Ben Cohen
YouTube video by SwiftServerConf
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...
24.10.2025 16:06
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Made a little thing that may help you profile your services from within their own process -- no extra privileges or tools required.
06.10.2025 19:24
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Screenshot of the output of Swift Profile Recorder, running Hummingbird’s hello example visualized in Speedscope.
New tooling for profiling performance-critical services with Swift -- introducing the Swift Profile Recorder. More here: www.swift.org/blog/swift-p...
06.10.2025 17:45
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Hello @serversideswift.info! #swiftlang
02.10.2025 09:27
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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...
25.09.2025 18:46
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Two weeks until @serversideswift.info at the Science Museum in London! Looking forward to joining in-person and connecting with the community. #swiftlang
17.09.2025 16:17
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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 ...
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...
16.09.2025 17:29
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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 🙏
15.09.2025 18:09
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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…
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
27.06.2025 21:10
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#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
16.06.2025 09:46
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Ahem... 🆕
04.06.2025 18:15
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In comparison with the previous Java service, the updated backend delivers a 40% increase in performance, along with improved scalability, security, and availability.
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...
03.06.2025 00:47
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Alt-J: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
Sunday morning vibe: Alt-J (2012 tiny desk concert) www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKdp...
27.04.2025 15:53
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Saw Jake Xerxes Fussell in concert tonight in Novato! Great show.
05.04.2025 05:21
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📰 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!
31.03.2025 21:20
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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...
26.03.2025 23:38
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Thrilled to have rejoined Apple as a Senior Product Manager for Swift!
06.03.2025 01:34
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FOSDEM 2025 - Stream K.4.401
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
01.02.2025 13:54
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Up next at #fosdem in building K! “Incremental Memory Safety in an Established Software Stack. Lessons learned from Swift” #swiftlang
01.02.2025 11:02
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