Swift was introduced a couple of years ago at Apple's 2014 WWDC. Over the years I analyzed iOS to measure how many built-in applications were using Swift. iOS 9 released in 2015 included a single application written with Swift: Calculator. Since then this... (more…)

Hello everyone, With the recent introduction of Swift concurrency, and most notably actors to the language, Swift gained powerful and foundational building blocks for expressing thread-safe concurrent programs. This proposal aims to extend Swift's actors... (more…)

Let’s take a look at a few different ways to add plugin support to a type or library, and how doing so can enable a system to become a lot more decoupled and flexible. (more…)

Daniel Steinberg from Dim Sum Thinking explains what's new in Swift 4! (more…)

Systems programmers who frequently switch between operating systems suffer from POSIX amnesia. That’s when you know what POSIX function to… (more…)