Doug Schaefer

Been a great summer planning expansion of Swift packages to better support Swift language interoperability and building something fun. forums.swift.org/t/expanding-...

Good architecture is that feeling of joy working in a code base. Hard enough for us to understand let alone the models.

🗓️2025 was a great year for Swift 🍾 Thank you all for choosing Swift. We're ending the year with a digest of what's been going on in the project and community recently. 🗞️ Read up here: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...

Just watched a video on EV performance on a Saskatoon night (where I went to university) at -35C. Used a lot of battery but the car performed great. And you know, I miss that adventure of waking up to -35C and heading to school and the sound of the snow crunching under your feet.

My fave tip for dev #swiftlang -> Linux, check how your Swift package compiles while on your mac w/ container: container run -it -c 4 -m 8g \ -v "$(pwd):/src" -w src/ \ swift:6.2 sh -c "swift build" (runs a Swift 6.2 image, gives it 4CPU and 8GB, mounts your PWD as "src", and builds)

I spent many years in the Eclipse community and was so privileged to be immersed in their passion for building great things and lasting friendships. The last few weeks attending Swift community meetups, I'm seeing that passion again. I feel so at home!

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

I can't wait to see where the community takes Swift on embedded platforms, microcontrollers like Doug G and Rauhul talk about here or even bigger and at the edge. www.swift.org/blog/embedde...

I can't wait to see where the community takes Swift on embedded platforms, microcontrollers like Doug and Rauhul talk about here or even bigger and on edge. www.swift.org/blog/embedde...

Swift - Java interop I think it’s pretty critical to embed Swift as a server side language. If you can begin a transition incrementally, it’s always easier to move over. Super cool to see this work, and congrats to Mads!

"I was under duress," Prince Harry explained in an interview with Canadian broadcaster CTV News after apologizing. "There wasn't much choice. I was invited to the Dodgers dugout by the owner. I was doing what I thought was the polite thing to do." https://cnn.it/3WJfonf

The Swift project is starting up digest posts on their blog, and I had the good fortune to be the guest voice, sharing some of the cool things from October. www.swift.org/blog/whats-n... I kind of expect the format to morph as we try this out, but i’m really happy to see this happenin’ #swiftlang

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

Excited by the progress the team is making. A modern build system for SwiftPM!

Introducing Swift Configuration 🎉 You'll also hear more about it at @serversideswift.info next week! 🏎️ forums.swift.org/t/introducin...

Finding I'm spending most of my time on Twitter. Tech influencers I enjoy listening to are there. And as long as I stay on the "Following" tab, I seem to avoid much of the nonsense.

When busy at work late into the evening making SwiftPM the best it can be, great to throw up Star Wars A New Hope to remind me what brought me to this game. Can't wait to focus more on Swift Embedded in SwiftPM to get it onto robots like this 😀 🤖 .

Love it that it’s a regular occurrence I turn on golf and there’s a Canadian on the leaderboard. What a great crop of players now.

loving the swift community rally around #swiftlang as the main hashtag for the language itself. it is so hard sifting through taylor swift and the financial network to engage with yall 😂 i think #swiftlang and platform would be cool to see too like #swiftlang #linux spread the word :)

Am I weird that I always feel the urge to thank Siri for doing something for me like set a timer?

JUST IN: Mark Carney has been elected as leader of Canada's Liberal Party in high stakes race to replace Justin Trudeau.

For someone who has trouble falling asleep, this side of the time change is devastating.

Got my Swift Game Boy Advance project building with the latest Swift 6.1 toolchain -- Embedded Swift support in SwiftPM has come a long way in the last year. github.com/harlanhaskin...

This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.

VHDL is just more readable than Verilog. But then Ada is a lot more readable than C too. So there's that. #ulx3s #misterfpga

Swift on Server has so much potential. I love hearing success stories like this. www.swift.org/blog/how-swi...

Hard to explain what this sport means to this country. Except for times like this. This is pride no one can take away.

The Swift Devroom at FOSDEM 2025 was a huge success! You can check out all the Swift-related videos at swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/ 🏎️ #swiftlang Many thanks to @kto.so @parisinbmore.bsky.social and many others for making it happen (please tag them below) 👏

OMG, just realized SNL was on through the entire 80's. What a time it was to be alive.

thrilled to have Karen on the team to grow Swift beyond Apple platforms solidifying other use cases #swiftlang

www.swift.org/blog/vscode-...

Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks: "We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."

Embedded Swift being discussed right now by Eric Bariaux. We've also been using Embedded Swift recently, and it's nice to see others in this space working with this too.

For more details check out the post on the #swift blog. swift.org/blog/the-nex...

Kicking off our #FOSDEM #Swift devroom, @parisinbmore.bsky.social has some exciting news. Apple is open sourcing the Xcode build system, with cross-platform support, as swift-build.

A new era is on its way for Swift Package Manager. github.com/swiftlang/sw...

Xcode's build system just went open source! github.com/swiftlang/sw...

Doug now presenting about moving a whole ecosystem to a memory safe language — over the course of the last decade. Main track K, check it out later if you can’t be in person :-) #swiftlang #swift #fosdem

Swift Everywhere includes Windows! And we are not kidding. ;)

Openings for Compiler and Runtime: jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail... Debugging: jobs.apple.com/en-gb/detail... Standard/Core Libraries: jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...

Been seeing videos on htmx showing up on my YouTube feed. What's old is new again. Totally my jam. Excited to try it with a Swift server using github.com/sliemeobn/el...

🔥 Swift Dev room at #FOSDEM25, super cool lineup of talks! fosdem.org/2025/schedul...

A shameless plug that @simonjbeaumont.com and I will be giving a live demo talk showing how to build a ChatGPT proxy server in Swift, from scratch, using Swift OpenAPI Generator, at FOSDEM 2025 🏎️ #swiftlang #openapi (I haven't been on a public stage since WWDC19 so might be a bit rusty 🫢)

Kicking off 2025 with a bang #swiftlang forums.swift.org/t/pitch-last...

Just watched the Ozzy Hall of Fame induction. Zakk doing No More Tears brought a tear. One of my favourite guitar solos and bass riffs. Incredible night.

Jimmy Carter was a true hero

My feeds are full of mourning for one of the great leaders of our time. May the current ones yearn to achieve as much in their life times. Though with this bunch, there is much work to be done...

His joy is infectious. Happy Holidays!

If you're interested in delving deeper into the design of recent #swiftlang technical directions, as well as the requirements that are driving their development, I highly recommend exploring the Swift vision documents: