I'm usually pretty good at inferring where Apple is going with their projects and products. With Swift, I'm left shrugging. Hopefully the purpose of Swift and how it relates to Apple becomes less muddy next week. Since 2004 (!) I have been attending WWDC ... (more…)

Arranging the fields of tuples and structs at run time... (more…)

Swift 5.0 introduced a stable binary interface on Apple platforms. This meant that apps built with the Swift 5.0 compiler can use the Swift runtime and standard library built into the operating system, and that existing apps will remain compatible with ne... (more…)

One special capability of the Swift language is to add new operators.

Every macOS/iOS developer uses tools such as fastlane and SwiftLint to automate tasks as much as possible: in this article we’re going to dive into how we can build our own tools using Swift. (more…)