Software developer Chris Lattner, who is the main author of LLVM as well as Apple's Swift programming language, is leaving Apple, he said today. From a post: When we made Swift open source and launched Swift.org we put a lot of effort into defining a stro...

In short, the argument is that there are many types of problems that developers are currently solving with the dynamic features of the ObjC runtime. As we are (possibly) heading towards a future…

I was sad to hear John Conway had recently died of COVID-19. Conway was a mathematician who contributed much to his field, but for me as a computer scientist, I knew of him for his Game of Life (aka just Life). (more…)

iOS 13.4 Xcode Version 11.4 (11E146) Swift 5 Swift-Protobuf 1.8.0 proto2 My iOS app is using generated code from outdated proto files. Since I've compiled the .swift files from the old protos, ... (more…)

For the first time, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory tracked water loss from an interstellar comet as it approached and rounded the Sun. The object, 2I/Borisov, traveled through the solar system in late 2019. (more…)