Dave Lester

🗞️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

Inspired by the FOSS Governance Collection, created by @vmbrasseur -- “an indexed collection of governance documents from Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects.” fossgovernance.org It's an incredible resource, and uses @zotero! #opensource

FoundationDB community: there's an in-person and online meetup scheduled for May 15 in San Jose, CA. Hosted by Adobe. More info: forums.foundationdb.org/t/foundationdb…