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…)

Edit Oct 7th: Checkout my Follow Up: Benchmarks for Linux (Ubuntu)... (more…)

Over the last few months I’ve dabbled in two new languages. Swift and Kotlin. These two languages have a number of similarities. Indeed, the similarities are so stark that I wonder if this isn’t a new trend in our language churn. If so, it is a da...

Get-Schwifty - Get Schwifty is a self-hosted Swift transpiler and was originally build for my WWDC scholarship application. (more…)

By Chengyin Liu, Paul Kompfner, and Michael Bachand...