In order to work with C APIs, we sometimes need to convert Swift object references to and from raw pointers. Swift's Unmanaged struct is the standard API for handling this. Today, I'd like to talk about what it does and how to use it. (more…)

I went down a rabbit hole looking at Swift compiler performance this week. Since most of the diagnostic flags are unsupported they are not well documented. Here's my summary of what you need to know. (more…)

First part of an in-depth guide into developing a native macOS application using Haskell with Swift and SwiftUI. This part covers the set-up required to call Haskell functions from Swift in an XCode project using SwiftUI. (more…)

Making HTTP requests is one of first things to learn when starting iOS and macOS development with Swift 5. In this article we'll build modern networking layer with Swift 5 APIs: URLSession, the Combine framework and Codable. We'll discuss why such librari... (more…)

Step-by-step instructions how to set up set up a Docker container to test your Swift packages on Linux. (more…)