airspeedswift

airspeedswift, 4 months ago to random

I once had a user who refused to let us install a new version of our app on their machine, saying “I don’t want a new version, I want you to fix the version I have”.

airspeedswift, 7 months ago to random

The debugger team at Apple is looking for an intern to join them, to work on improving the handling debugging of optimized Swift code.

Would be a great opportunity for someone enthusiastic about learning more about how Swift is implemented, and improve the debugging experience for the community.

https://gist.github.com/adrian-prantl/488fe9c4abcb93be8ea113df2daa1b30

airspeedswift, 1 year ago to random

A preview of the new cross-platform #Swift implementation of Foundation is now available on GitHub.

https://www.swift.org/blog/foundation-preview-now-available/

airspeedswift, 4 months ago to swift

The team that works on the interop between #Swift and C++ are hiring! Come help people move to a safer friendlier future.

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200531386/compiler-frontend-engineer?team=SFTWR

airspeedswift, 1 year ago to random

Loads of great #swift content for you this week, starting with @dgregor79 and me taking you through the latest improvements in What’s new in Swift

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10164

airspeedswift, 1 year ago to random

Documentation for #Swift 5.9's C++ Interoperability feature is now available on swift.org

https://www.swift.org/documentation/cxx-interop/

airspeedswift, 1 year ago to random

In What's new in Swift I mention the performance improvements from the new Swift implementation of Foundation. Performance came up a lot when we first put the open source package live, but wasn't easy to talk about until the new OS betas were available.

One common trope at the time was “it isn't faster than using Objective-C, this is just to reduce Swift bridging costs” and while that's true, it's important to note Swift is just plain faster, as seen even when calling into it from ObjC.

airspeedswift, 7 months ago to random

There no bigger lie to tell yourself than “I’ll work on it on the plane”

airspeedswift, 2 months ago to swift

Something fun to play with in #Swift from @rauhul

https://www.swift.org/blog/byte-sized-swift-tiny-games-playdate/

airspeedswift, 2 months ago to swift

It’s been great to see the rapid adoption of the Benchmark package across the ecosystem. Read more its features on the #swift blog.

https://www.swift.org/blog/benchmarks/

airspeedswift, 7 months ago to swift

Learn all about the new crash reporting capabilities in the runtime in #Swift 5.9:

https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-5.9-backtraces/

airspeedswift, 11 months ago to swift

Case statements becoming expressions in #swift 5.9 is a chance to up your multi-select game.

A screen capture of a long case statement mapping enum cases to doubles in Swift. It has several return statements. Multi-select is used to select one return, then all of them, then delete them, and finally join every other line.

airspeedswift, 9 months ago to random

Come for the safety, stay for the dry C++ humour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgivCGdmFrw

airspeedswift, 1 year ago to random

OK trying out a real me avatar for this conference thingy. I’ll be at Apple Park today along with a bunch of other folks from the #swift team. Come say hi if you’re there.

airspeedswift, 6 months ago to random

I was happy for the opportunity to spread the word about Swift's cross-platform support on The Changelog podcast last week.

https://changelog.com/podcast/566

airspeedswift, 7 months ago to random

There's this increasing tendency to talk about memory safety as if, because it's the most pressing problem right now, solving it means you've won the battle. But that's not the end goal… it's the start. Literally the least you can do.

airspeedswift, 6 months ago to random

ICYMI, in Xcode 15, if you highlight part of a line and hit cmd-/, it comments just that part of the line out with /* */

airspeedswift, 6 months ago to swift

My real agenda here is eliminating the scourge of immediately-executed closures from #swift

https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-multi-statement-if-switch-do-expressions/68443

airspeedswift, 6 months ago to swift

Thinking of participating in #AdventOfCode this year? Here's a starter project for you to get up and running in #Swift. The project works in both Xcode and using SwiftPM on Mac, Windows, or Linux.

https://github.com/apple/swift-aoc-starter-example

airspeedswift, 11 months ago to random

Just so we’re clear, Facebook has a right-wing agenda and a lot of you are enabling their attempt to reclaim the relevancy they thankfully lost, and in turn they will use it to push that agenda.

Dressing it up in “but the UX” or “ah, but me and my friends are smarter than that” is missing the point. If the platform becomes popular with your help, they will herd the people who aren’t you towards the GOP.

airspeedswift, 11 months ago to random

I’ve wandered into an alternate universe where I'm dealing with some people who seem only capable of communicating via phone, and its murder. I email them saying we should schedule a time to talk, and they call me to try and arrange that time. I cannot answer so I email them and later that day they call me again. Send help.

airspeedswift, 2 months ago to swift

More embedded goodness on the #swift blog

https://www.swift.org/blog/embedded-swift-examples/

airspeedswift, 1 month ago to random

Y’all are putting way too much inside didSet.

I get how temptingly convenient it is but it’s setting things up for future sadness.

Also no taking all that logic and stuffing it in a single method you call from didSet. You’re not fooling anyone.

stroughtonsmith, 1 month ago to random

So what does rewriting a Swift app in Swift 6 actually get you, that staying on Swift 5.x won’t? Will new Swift language/compiler features come to both language modes for the foreseeable future?