It’s a few weeks before WWDC, so naturally¹ it’s time to try build your Swiftprojects in the compiler’s compatibility mode! (more…)

Ever since its release in 2014, Swift went through multiple iterations in order to become a great full-stack development language. Indeed: iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS apps, and their backend can now be written in the same language. Backends can be writte... (more…)

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 four of these bugs are present in the 5.5-RELEASE toolcha... (more…)

Swift in a sense is very much like C++, and when I say C++ I mean C++11 and beyond. One could also say that Swift is cleaner C++, or C++ without the backwards compatibility baggage from the 80s. To give an idea here’s a minimal modern C++ code: (more…)

If you happen to be one of the lucky people living in London you couldn’t miss we’ve had a bit of a sunlight crisis [not just recently]. Instead of the usual vitamin D deficiency which we are used to being brought to our attention during regular health ch... (more…)