For a while now I’ve had a series of blog posts floating around in my head on how to build an HTTP stack in Swift. The idea started last spring with Rob Napier’s blog posts on protocols, and matured last summer and fall while I was working at WeWork on an... (more…)

This week’s article is about Swift’s function builders feature, and how it can give us some really valuable insights into how SwiftUI’s DSL operates under the hood. (more…)

How Swift 5.5 enables computed properties to become either throwing or asynchronous, and what sort of situations that these new capabilities could become useful in. (more…)

Holly Borla and Grace Kendall, both software engineers at Apple, join John to go on a deep dive into the Swift Playgrounds app and Swift 5.2’s new diagnostics engine. Also, how Swift Playgrounds was ported to the Mac using Catalyst, and Swift’s role in ed... (more…)

Swift 5.5 is now officially released! Swift 5.5 is a massive release, which includes newly introduced language capabilities for concurrency, including async/await, structured concurrency, and Actors. My heartfelt thanks to the entire Swift community for... (more…)