6 years ago, Swift was announced. In the years since, a thriving community has emerged around a shared passion for building and using the Swift programming language. This community has spread far beyond Apple through conferences, open source repositories... (more…)

‎Swift Playgrounds is a revolutionary app for Mac and iPad that makes it fun to learn and experiment with code. You solve interactive puzzles in the guided “Learn to Code” lessons to master the basics of coding, or experiment with a wide range of challeng... (more…)

China and Russia have their own Swift-like systems, and while neither is likely to displace Swift tomorrow, sanctions will propel efforts to strengthen and expand them. ... (more…)

During the process of building our applications, we are often faced with the need of persisting and querying model objects in some form of store. The store can be a remote server, a local CoreData... (more…)

Since we moved parts of our codebase to swift, our compile times have effectively quadrupled. Trying to combat this, we've used the function and expression debug time flags to figure out if there's something to be saved by simplifying expressions. Apart ... (more…)