For the first time, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory tracked water loss from an interstellar comet as it approached and rounded the Sun. The object, 2I/Borisov, traveled through the solar system in late 2019. (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…)

Swift development lead Ted Kremenek has announced a preliminary vision of what Swift 6 could include and how the community will get there on Swift's mailing list. Swift 6 will bring significant improvements to the language, including better concurrency su... (more…)

Doug Gregor from Apple joins John to discuss Swift 5.5’s new concurrency features in great detail. How do features like async/await and actors work under the hood, and how were those concepts adapted in order to feel right at home within Swift’s existing ... (more…)

The fastest and easiest way to present a UITableView - in 3 lines of code. - GitHub - sivx76/Swift-Table: The fastest and easiest way to present a UITableView - in 3 lines of code. (more…)