It is my pleasure to announce a new set of Linux distributions officially supported by the Swift project. Swift.org now offers downloadable toolchain and Docker images for the following new Linux distributions: (more…)

Discussions on how concurrency should be handled natively in Swift will soon start, new paradigms will be introduced and a swifty approach to concurrency will be defined. This article is an introduction to these topics, it could be useful if you plan to c... (more…)

Programming languages often prioritize either performance or ergonomics. Swift offers a unique modern type-safe low-ceremony approach taking the best of both... (more…)

During the process of building our applications, we are often faced with the need of persisting and querying model objects in some form of store. The store can be a remote server, a local CoreData... (more…)

The Raspberry Pi is a fun little device that everyone can learn from. From robotics to home automation, you can use it to do just about anything. In September 2019, I hosted a workshop at try! Swift NYC where we used a Raspberry Pi to build a distance mea... (more…)