My last post explained that invoking swift/utils/build-script compiles the C++ source code in the apple/swift project and produces a swift compiler executable. (more…)

The Tiobe Index – which measures the popularity of programming languages on a monthly basis – reports that Apple’s Swift has made it into the top 10 for the first time. Tiobe says that rating… (more…)

For the past few weeks I’ve been writing Twitter threads on “Swift regrets”, things I wish we’d done differently early on in Swift’s development. I’ve been doing them on Twitter rather than as blog posts because of my RSI—short-form on my phone is easier ... (more…)

Suffusion is a minimal Swift wrapper around the FUSE APIs to support experimenting with custom read-only filesystems. It's inspired by the Objective-C API presented by OSXFUSE.framework, but presents FUSE's "low-level" node-based API rather than a path-ba... (more…)

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