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…)

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…)

We are nearly at the end of the school year here in Scotland and I wanted to take some time to reflect on the experience of teaching the Computer Science curriculum this year using Swift Playgrounds and Apple's Learn to Code curriculum. Backgroun... (more…)

Summary — Using Swift as a backend language at this stage is an interesting learning experience and well-suited to a project of this small… (more…)

Unlike its predecessors C and Objective-C, Swift has the concept of Optional types. By default, variables in Swift cannot be set to nil… (more…)