Dave Lester

My favorite part of the latest digest? The two Embedded Swift talks it links to. One of them demos Swift on a Game Boy Advance!

Your digest of everything new in Swift has just landed! Read up on the latest release, community projects, evolution proposals, and videos from across the ecosystem: swift.org/blog/whats-new…

🗞️News from Swift: web apps, a new mail stack, 3D printing, embedded Swift updates, and some community events. Read all about it in the latest Swift blog post: swift.org/blog/whats-new…

Happy New Year, @SwiftLang crew! So happy to be back, I hope everyone enjoyed some time off. If you're looking to catch up on Swift news, check out the December digest: swift.org/blog/whats-new… and let me know what you think!

🎉 10 years of open source Swift! A decade ago today, we opened Swift to the world with a simple blog post: swift.org/blog/welcome What's grown since—thanks to an incredible community of contributors—has been extraordinary. Here's to the next ten years. 🧡

Today I played around with Embedded Swift to build a hello world app for the Pebble and was able to run it on my almost 10 year old Pebble Time Round.

Excited about this release for the #swiftlang and @temporalio communities.

Indie developers now have more tools in their toolkit for building with Swift across platforms, thanks to @skiptools. Exciting to see a Swift community member building a business with the open source Swift SDK for Android. skip.tools/blog/skip-fuse… #Android

It's been a busy month for Swift, with lots of project updates to share. Here's a digest of the latest news: swift.org/blog/whats-new…

📣Announcing the first preview releases of Swift for Android, enabling you to build Android business logic with the same Swift that you use for Apple platforms. swift.org/blog/nightly-s… #Android

New tooling for profiling performance-critical services with Swift -- introducing the Swift Profile Recorder. More here: swift.org/blog/swift-pro…

Ahead of next week's ServerSide.swift conference in London, organizer and Swift server workgroup member @0xTim looks back at the growth of Swift as a platform for building server apps: swift.org/blog/swift-on-… @SwiftServerConf

Two weeks until @SwiftServerConf at The Science Museum in London! A conference all about @SwiftLang on the server. Looking forward to joining in-person and connecting with the community. #swiftlang

Swift 6.2 is here, including so much 🆕🥳: ⏩Approachable concurrency 🦺Opt-in strict memory safety 📦WebAssembly support 🏃Faster build perf for macros 🐞Enhanced async debugging 📚Inline stack-based arrays 🚇Subprocess support 🧪Test result attachments swift.org/blog/swift-6.2…

Developing Swift on server? Less than two weeks to submit a talk for @SwiftServerConf, a conference taking place October 2/3 in London, UK that @0xTim is organizing once again this year! CFP closes July 10, 2025 23:59 UTC. papercall.io/serversideswif… #SwiftLang

Join the @swiftlang server meetup group online in less than an hour. Talks feature embedded Swift and edge AI forums.swift.org/t/meetup-swift… #swiftlang

The story behind the Apple Password Monitoring service, handling multiple billions of requests per day from devices all over the world, which was recently rewritten in Swift: swift.org/blog/swift-at-…

Introducing the seamless Java/Swift interop effort! Offering both: - generated Swift macro based JNI wrappers - Project Panama based Swift accessors generated with a jextract-swift tool for high performance use-cases Early prototype is open source and we’ll share more about our plans and invite folks to collaborate early next week! github.com/swiftlang/swif… #ServerSideSwift2024

UC Davis Library is hiring a community manager to support the work of the University of California (UC) Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Network careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucdavis/EM… #ospo

I'm happy to see "feed two birds with one scone" getting more traction and widespread use compared to the stone variant. More like this