We all know that async / await was one of this year’s big announcements WWDC. It completely changes the way we interact with concurrent code. Instead of using completion handlers, we can await results… (more…)

Using NASA's Swift observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, Indian astronomers have inspected a prominent high synchrotron peaked blazar known as 1ES 1959+650. Results of the study, published May 5 on the arXiv pre-print server, shed more light on the ... (more…)

Making too many observations about our society may lead to inferences that will fundamentally change one's outlook - not necessarily for the better. (more…)

Learn how to work with the Task object to perform asynchronous operations in a safe way using the new concurrency APIs in Swift. (more…)

Over time, Swift has developed a distinct dialect, a set of core idioms that distinguish it from other languages. Many new developers now arrive not just from Objective-C but also from Ruby, Java, Python, and more. The other day, I was helping Nicholas T ... (more…)