Back in the dark ages of Swift 1, I wrote an article about locks and thread safety in Swift. The march of time has made it fairly obsolete, and reader Seth Willits suggested I update it for the modern age, so here it is! (more…)

I chose Objective-C to write the code for Up Spell, my word game for iOS. Find out why. More about Up Spell. https://upgames.dev Steve Jobs at 1997 WWDC. htt... (more…)

Swift's error handling is a unique feature of the language. It looks a lot like exceptions in other languages, but the syntax is not quite the same, and it doesn't quite work the same either. Today I'm going to take a look at how Swift errors work on the ... (more…)

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

I’m excited to announce a new open-source package and an enhancement to the Swift Evolution process: the Standard Library Preview package! The preview package provides access to functionality that has been accepted into the Swift standard library through ... (more…)