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🚀 Swift 6.3: The latest magic trick in the never-ending quest to make tech jargon sound exciting! 🎩✨ Now with "More flexible C interope" — because who doesn't love a good half-finished word in a release note? 🙄🔧
https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-6.3-released/ #Swift6.3 #TechJargon #Excitement #CInterop #ReleaseNotes #HackerNews #ngated

Swift 6.3 Released

Swift is designed to be the language you reach for at every layer of the software stack. Whether you’re building embedded firmware, internet-scale services, or full-featured mobile apps, Swift delivers strong safety guarantees, performance control when you need it, and expressive language features and APIs.

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Snapp iOS Weekly Mar 3

Tired of copying C headers just to annotate them with 𝑆𝑊𝐼𝐹𝑇_𝑁𝐴𝑀𝐸? There's a better way. Use YAML-based clang API notes to prettify your C method signatures and make them Swift-y while keeping your C libraries intact.

🔗: https://christiantietze.de/posts/2026/01/use-clang-api-notes-annotate-c-header-swifty-module-imports/ by Christian Tietze (@ctietze)

#Swift #CInterop #iOSDev

Use clang API notes to Annotate C Header Files for Swifty Module Imports

Doug Gregor shows how to use clang to import a C library with header files that you don’t own in a way that produces very ergonomic Swift APIs with annotations in YAML files.

Christian Tietze