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@swiftlang

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Swift is a general-purpose programming language that's fast, modern, safe, and a joy to write. Designed for all, developed in the open.

Homepage	https://swift.org
Github	https://github.com/swiftlang

Swift Language 5d ago

Need a fast key/value datastore? The portfolio of Swift packages for building high-performance internet-scale services grew further this week with the preview of Valkey support: https://valkey.io/blog/valkey-swift/

Valkey · Introducing valkey-swift, the Swift client for Valkey

The new Swift client for Valkey is now in preview. Learn about its features and how it brings the performance of Valkey to the Swift language.

Swift Language Jul 10

Packaging #Haskell code for easy Swift interoperability: easy thanks to these tips: https://alt-romes.github.io/posts/2025-07-05-packaging-a-haskell-library-as-a-swift-binary-xcframework.html @haskell

Automatically Packaging a Haskell Library as a Swift Binary XCFramework

Announcing <code>xcframework</code> or: the happy path for wiring a Haskell dependency to your Swift app

Swift Language Jul 10

Putting Swift in a box 📦 Tools for containerizing Swift, from a presentation at #OSSummit @linuxfoundation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV0wACpikyw

How To Put Swift in a Box: Container Images From Scratch With Swift Container Plugin - Euan Harris

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Swift Language Jun 25

Announcing the Swift on Android Working Group, with the goal of establishing and maintaining Android as an officially supported platform for Swift. More here: https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-the-android-workgroup/80666 #android

Swift Language Jun 10

Now you can use your Mac for developing Linux-based server components with Swift, using the new Swift-based container tools. Learn more and download at: https://github.com/apple/container

Swift Language Jun 4

More on the new blog redesign here: https://www.swift.org/blog/redesigned-swift-org-is-now-live/ This is just the start: we'll continue to roll out new getting started content and more...

Redesigned Swift.org is now live

Over the past few months, the website workgroup has been redesigning Swift.org. On behalf of the website workgroup, I’m pleased to announce that we have merged the initial changes.

Swift.org

Swift Language Jun 4

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Swift Language Jun 3

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: https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-at-apple-migrating-the-password-monitoring-service-from-java/

Swift Language May 21

When Things rebuilt their server backend with Swift, they saw improved code reuse, rock-solid stability, and a fourfold speed boost when processing sync requests. @things #ServersideSwift https://culturedcode.com/things/blog/2025/05/a-swift-cloud/

A Swift Cloud - Things Blog - Cultured Code

Swift Language May 16

Introducing Swift OPA, which allows you to keep service policies decoupled from service code, giving your security and compliance teams the flexibility they need to manage services built in Swift. https://blog.openpolicyagent.org/introducing-swift-opa-native-policy-evaluation-for-swift-d5136c8a662e @openpolicyagent

Introducing Swift OPA: Native Policy Evaluation for Swift

Exciting news — Swift OPA, a new way to integrate OPA natively within Swift applications and services, has now been released. Swift OPA builds on the robust foundation of OPA’s Intermediate…

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Swift Language Jun 4

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Swift Language Jun 4

More on the new blog redesign here: https://www.swift.org/blog/redesigned-swift-org-is-now-live/ This is just the start: we'll continue to roll out new getting started content and more...

Redesigned Swift.org is now live

Over the past few months, the website workgroup has been redesigning Swift.org. On behalf of the website workgroup, I’m pleased to announce that we have merged the initial changes.

Swift.org

Caleb Woodbine 🎺🐛Jun 4

@swiftlang Dang, looking pretty as!

Eric Bariaux Jun 5

@swiftlang Thrilled to see Embedded featured prominently on the home page of the newly redesigned swift.org website.
And I like the overall new look, great work!

alexwlchan Jun 11

@swiftlang The new site looks great! ✨

I had a lot of fun trying to work out how the hero animation works; props for keeping all the JavaScript nice and human-readable: https://social.alexwlchan.net/@alex/114665181870109086

alexwlchan (@alex@alexwlchan.net)

Attached: 1 image Recreating a bird animation: https://alexwlchan.net/2025/swift-bird-animation/?ref=mastodon I learnt a bunch about animation on the web by reading the Swift.org source code, like: ✨ Using a dash pattern to draw partial paths ✨ HTML5 Canvas and globalCompositeOperation ✨ Anime.js ✨ MutationObserver ✨ prefers-reduce-motion: reduce

social.alexwlchan.net

@swiftlang ooh, fancy, nice work

@swiftlang 😍

Jens Siebert 🦀🇪🇺Jun 4

@swiftlang nice 👍

Krzysztof Nizioł

@swiftlang New fresh look. WWDC is coming 🤓

Melroy van den Berg Jun 4

@swiftlang lol. iOS and windows apps but no Linux mentioned? Yeah, no.

@melroy Linux is right there under the install button, listed first.
@swiftlang

Melroy van den Berg Jun 5

@oscherler @swiftlang Yes true that is just a statement, I just was expecting to show case Linux apps as well, besides 'iOS apps' and 'Windows apps' (as a button to click on).

Sandro Stricker Jun 4

@swiftlang 👍 🤩

Naoufal Medouri Jun 4

@swiftlang 🤩

Michael Roitzsch Jun 5

@swiftlang So nice, great work!

Hexaèdre Jun 5

@swiftlang There should be a ‘macOS App’ button as well! Don’t forget macOS please! #macOS #macOSDev

@hexaedre @swiftlang Amen! Replace that crap AI button with a macOS button.