Dave Lester

Lots of great highlights this month. One of my favorite parts: ten years of Vapor, and the release of Vapor 5 beta! Congrats to the team on the milestone.

Ok, Swift fam. A Swift SDK for GCP is a *great* start, but we (also) need an Firebase SDK for the server side. Can we bump the votes for this up to get it close to the votes for KMP support? Cast your vote (link in the first reply)

A busy summer for Swift continues. ☀️ In July: • Task Stealers land in Swift Concurrency’s runtime. • SwiftPM gets a package registry reference implementation. • A talk about explicit ownership at PLDI 2026. Read more: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...

Swift Package Index has joined Apple, and together we’re building a comprehensive package registry to serve the Swift community’s evolving needs. Read more: https://www.swiftpackageindex.com/blog/swift-package-index-joins-apple

Memory-safe. 13% faster on average. ⚡️ The TrueType hinting interpreter in macOS and iOS has been rewritten in Swift, replacing the original C implementation. Pixel-perfect accuracy was validated across 27 million glyphs. And the results: www.swift.org/blog/migrati...

A unified networking stack for Swift, layered from low-level I/O primitives, through common protocols, to a modern HTTP client and server API. ⚙️ That's what the new Networking workgroup is building. Interested in contributing? Join us: www.swift.org/blog/announc...

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: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...

🗞️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: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...

The @swift.org team is demonstrating a level of consistency that makes me believe they really want to see the Swift programming language thrive outside of the Apple ecosystem.

Happy New Year, @swift.org 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: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n... and let me know what you think!

Beautiful idiomatic Swift running in 6K RAM and 32K Flash? Fantastic work xtremekforever! github.com/xtremekforev...

Excited about this release for the @swift.org and @temporal.io communities.

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

My talk from Server Side Swift is up! Talking about how languages make the trade-off between easy to write and fast at runtime, and how (shockingly!) I think #Swift strikes the right balance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz3h...

Made a little thing that may help you profile your services from within their own process -- no extra privileges or tools required.

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

Hello @serversideswift.info! #swiftlang

Introducing Swift Configuration, a new way to share and manage configuration for Swift. It's a smarter way to keep secrets safe and separate develop/test/prod environments. More here: forums.swift.org/t/introducin...

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

Two weeks until @serversideswift.info at the Science Museum in London! 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 www.swift.org/blog/swift-6...

Excited to present at @serversideswift.info this year 🏎️ Last year was a lot of fun, and I can't wait to see y'all in person again 🙏

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

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

#Apple has migrated its global Password Monitoring service from #Java to #Swift! The result❓ 40% increase in throughput and significantly reduced memory usage - freeing up nearly 50% of previously allocated Kubernetes capacity. Learn more: bit.ly/4mZcs1T #InfoQ #Performance #SoftwareDevelopment

Ahem... 🆕

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: www.swift.org/blog/swift-a...

“Our eyes could potentially be coaxed into a special repair mode above and beyond our natural self-healing abilities, according to a new study, thanks to the delivery of antibodies that trigger nerve cell regeneration in the retina.” #scicomm #neuroskyence www.sciencealert.com/experimental... 🧪 🧠 👁️

Sunday morning vibe: Alt-J (2012 tiny desk concert) www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKdp...

Saw Jake Xerxes Fussell in concert tonight in Novato! Great show.

📰 Announcing Swift 6.1 📰 With ergonomic improvements to concurrency, simpler Objective-C interop, productivity and package improvements: swift.org/blog/swift-6... Install with Xcode 16.3 or the new swiftly version manager!

Spring is here (in the northern hemisphere) 🪺🐣 -- and what could be a better time for some code tidying? Fortunately Periphery is here to rescue us, building unused code detection on top of swift-syntax. Have you tried it? github.com/peripheryapp...

Swift 6.2 Release process announced: forums.swift.org/t/swift-6-2-... #swiftlang

Thrilled to have rejoined Apple as a Senior Product Manager for Swift!

The new NixOS Foundation Board has been announced discourse.nixos.org/t/announcing... #noxos #opensource

Standing room only in the #swiftlang DevRom at #fosdem! Starting at the top of the hour and live streaming online: live.fosdem.org/watch/k4401

Up next at #fosdem in building K! “Incremental Memory Safety in an Established Software Stack. Lessons learned from Swift” #swiftlang

Google’s #opensource program office is hiring! We’re looking for people who have experience working at the intersection of open source and business, and who enjoy working with engineering and product teams to get things done (We also enjoy OSS puns and animal memes) www.google.com/about/career...

TIL: Lumon's office building in Severance is actually the Bell Labs Holmdel Complex en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_La...

From the homepage of Hacker News: "Swift for C++ Practitioners, Part 12: Move Semantics" by Doug Gregor www.douggregor.net/posts/swift-.... As a commenter noted, you may want to start with Part 1: www.douggregor.net/posts/swift-.... #swiftlang

Embedded Swift, Swift on Server, IoT, Cross-Platform Development, and more -- excited about the range of talks in the #swiftlang Developer Room at #fosdem next month

First time having eggnog and the verdict is… that it’s delicious

Earlier this year I briefly presented at GitHub's OSPO Advisory Board meeting about analyzing GitHub Data with BigQuery, which inspired this written tutorial: davelester.github.io/gharchive-bi.... Open to ideas and feedback on how to improve and expand the resource.