It is my pleasure to announce a new open source project for the Swift Server ecosystem, Swift Cluster Membership. This library aims to help Swift grow in a new space of server applications: clustered multi-node distributed systems. With this library we pr... (more…)

Swift does not provide first-class language support for atomic properties. Let's fill in this gap by designing an atomic Swift property wrapper based on the use of serial dispatch queue. (more…)

The Swift Programming Language. Contribute to apple/swift development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

IBM has recently discontinued its involvement in Server-side Swift development, which started soon after Swift was open-sourced, and relinquished its leadership in the Swift Server Work Group [SSWG]. InfoQ has talked to IBM's Chris Bailey to learn more ab... (more…)

Swift doesn’t have a built-in type for fixed-size, stack-allocated arrays. The standard library uses code generation to work around this limitation for internal use. (more…)