While working on a Swift project, I didn’t find any tool that would allow Swift to run inside Nix builds. Even thought you can run Swift, the real problem arises when using the package manager. It has many of the same problems that other package managers ... (more…)

Systems programmers who frequently switch between operating systems suffer from POSIX amnesia. That’s when you know what POSIX function to… (more…)

Google's in-development operating system, named 'Fuchsia,' first appeared over a year ago. It's quite different from Android and Chrome OS, as it runs on t... by Corbin Davenport in Development, Google, News... (more…)

First part of an in-depth guide into developing a native macOS application using Haskell with Swift and SwiftUI. This part covers the set-up required to call Haskell functions from Swift in an XCode project using SwiftUI. (more…)

I’m delighted to announce Swift Atomics, a new open source package that enables direct use of low-level atomic operations in Swift code. The goal of this library is to enable intrepid systems programmers to start building synchronization constructs (such ... (more…)