Over the next few months, I'll be writing a guide to each section of the Swift compiler source code: swift/lib/Driver, swift/lib/Frontend, swift/lib/Parse, a... (more…)

What Server-Side Swift means for web development and why you should care...

It is my pleasure to announce a new open source project for the Swift Server ecosystem, Swift Cluster Membership. This library aims to help Swift grow in a new space of server applications: clustered multi-node distributed systems. With this library we pr... (more…)

Weak self references are common in Swift, especially in network request callbacks. In this article, I'll show you why they are needed and how simplify them. (more…)

This is the third post in the series on basics of working with SQLite in Swift. In the part 1 we learned how to open and close the SQLite database. Then, in the part 2, we discovered a simple way t… (more…)