Lack of ABI stability, slow compile times, poor Xcode support, and more hold Swift back... (more…)

To learn and understand neural networks you have to implement them yourself from scratch. So I thought, why not try it in Swift? (more…)

Back in the dark ages of Swift 1, I wrote an article about locks and thread safety in Swift. The march of time has made it fairly obsolete, and reader Seth Willits suggested I update it for the modern age, so here it is! (more…)

A week ago we completed the migration of the entire Firefox for iOS project from Swift 2.3 to Swift 3.0. With over 206,000 lines of code, migrating a project... (more…)

Summary — Using Swift as a backend language at this stage is an interesting learning experience and well-suited to a project of this small… (more…)