Mastodawn

Your favorite C library, now with Swift superpowers. 🦸

New post: how to transform C APIs into idiomatic Swift, with enums, automatic reference counting, and argument-labeled methods. Best of all: no header changes needed, thanks to API notes! 🥳 https://www.swift.org/blog/improving-usability-of-c-libraries-in-swift/

Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift

There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct interoperability with C. With a little setup, you can directly use existing C libraries from your Swift code.

Swift.org

Raphael Jan 17

Swift Language Jan 15

📚Check out this beautiful contribution by
@peterfriese: a typeset PDF of The Swift Programming Language book, our official reference to Swift, produced with Typst. Download and read the PDF here: https://github.com/peterfriese/swift-book @typst

Raphael Dec 21

Konrad 'ktoso' Malawski Dec 18

CALL FOR PAPERS 📑 For the swift community event the day before #FOSDEM is now open!!

See you there 😊 #swiftlang #swift #oss

https://swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/

Raphael Dec 19

chuuchuu Dec 19

We tracked like 17 million train arrivals last year to see where delays happen, and this is the result 🗺️

Find out the best and worst stations, routes and times of day in our 2025 Wrapped overview: https://chuuchuu.com/2025wrapped

(on that note, we have a new website so check that out too)

Raphael Dec 12

Swift Language Dec 11

⚙️ Swift Configuration 1.0 is here! 🎉 No more juggling environment variables, config files, and command-line flags separately. One unified, type-safe API to read configuration from any source, and swap providers without refactoring your code. More here... https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-configuration-1.0-released/

Raphael Dec 5

Konrad 'ktoso' Malawski Dec 5

Check out the keynote from #reInvent highlighting our commitment to #Swift in server side systems! Payam talks through some of the cost savings and developer experience and performance gains we've seen in adopting Swift: https://youtu.be/JeUpUK0nhC0?t=1282

Raphael Dec 4

Swift Language Dec 4

🎉 10 years of open source Swift! A decade ago today, we opened Swift to the world with a simple blog post: https://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. 🧡

Raphael Nov 7

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Swift Language Nov 6

1️⃣ Swift comes to FreeBSD

Swift is now available in preview for FreeBSD 14.3 and later. We want your feedback, bug reports, and contributions to make Swift great on FreeBSD! 🧑‍💻Read the announcement here: https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-on-freebsd-preview/83064 #freebsd

Raphael Nov 5

erdgeist Nov 5

Was für Anfänger! Jeder weiß, dass das Passwort hätte „L0uvr3“ hätte heißen müssen.

Raphael Oct 25

Ben Cohen Oct 24

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz3hCRSPrdo

Usability Meets Performance in Swift - Ben Cohen

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