hi all, I’ve discovered several stack corruption bugs related to async/await which can be reproduced in simple test programs compiled with recent nightly toolchains. i have confirmed that two three of these bugs are present in the 5.5-RELEASE toolchain. ... (more…)

Mert Buran (link: twitter.com/lazymanandbeard) iOS Developer @ Trainline (trainline.com) For more info on Pubgrub: Pubgrub: Next-Gen Version Solving (https:/... (more…)

The other day I came across a bug in my RethinkDB driver for Swift. The function that runs the query defines a generic parameter T, which is used to cast the result of the query to a specific… (more…)

A year ago I analyzed how many built-in apps in iOS 10.1 and macOS 10.12 were using Swift: Apple’s use of Swift in iOS 10.1 and macOS 10.12. (more…)

Unlike its predecessors C and Objective-C, Swift has the concept of Optional types. By default, variables in Swift cannot be set to nil… (more…)