This post describes the goals, release process, and estimated schedule for Swift 5.3. (more…)

One of Swift 5.2’s new features is the ability to use KeyPaths as functions. This can be extremely useful in cases where you’d only return the value of a certain KeyPath in a closure. Let’s look at a… (more…)

We use API availability checks all the time, but have you wondered how the Swift compiler handles this? In this article, we'll take a deep dive on how the #availability condition works, how the Swift compiler is able to know if a specific symbol is availa... (more…)

Thread-safety in Swift can be achieved using GCD concurrent queues & barrier flag. Reads would occur in parallel, while writes are given mutual exclusion. (more…)

Let's face it: there's a limit to how much fun you can have while you're waiting for code to compile. (via xkcd.com/303/) At some point, enough is enough. Our team has had enough fun compiling…...