💡In the third of our series highlighting Swift contributions from GSoC, Ahmed Elrefaey has been working on smarter inline documentation to help you while writing code in VS Code, coming soon: www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20... #GSOC

🚀 Swift is now officially supported on Amazon Linux 2023! This makes deploying Swift apps to AWS easier than ever. Try it: sudo dnf install swiftlang. The future of Swift keeps getting brighter... @awscloud.bsky.social #Linux docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023...

Managing long-running, stateful workflows in Swift just got a whole lot easier. The new Temporal SDK brings first-class support for building reliable, fault-tolerant applications. www.swift.org/blog/swift-t... @temporal.io

Bridging the Swift and Java worlds opens the door to a richer set of server-side use cases for Swift. In our latest GSoC spotlight, Mads Odgaard describes his work to expand access to Swift/Java interop. #Java #GSOC www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...

📣 It's a landmark day for Swift, with three announcements that expand the ecosystem for developers everywhere. Here’s what’s new! 🧵

We're featuring results of the summer GSoC projects over the next few days. Here's the first from Priyambada Roul, who worked on integrating Swiftly with the Swift VS Code extension: www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...

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

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...

🧱Lots of progress towards a unified, open source, cross-platform build system for Swift 🏗️ Here's the latest project update: forums.swift.org/t/swiftpm-on...

📣Announcing the first preview releases of Swift for Android, enabling you to build Android business logic with the same Swift that you use for Apple platforms. www.swift.org/blog/nightly... #Android

🎥First sessions from @serversideswift.info are now on YouTube! Watch Mona Dierickx explore the AWS SDK for Swift and Amazon Bedrock AI integration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDkb...

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

Swift isn't just for client apps: when Elytra moved from Node to Swift for their server code, they benefited from better performance and a unified codebase. More here: elytra.app/blog/2025/10...

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...

🧪Exit testing is new in Swift 6.2! Now it's easy to check whether code exits cleanly, and ensure it prints the expected output to the console. Here's a sssssuper sssssimple sssssample! 🐍 More at developer.apple.com/documentatio...

With ✨Swift 6.2 ✨, you can now target WebAssembly, including WASI support. Get started here: www.swift.org/documentatio... #Wasm

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...

Lots of exciting progress with Wasm on Swift, thanks to contributions from a wide variety of sources: forums.swift.org/t/swift-for-... #Wasm

Did you know that you can build a Swift package that supports multiple versions of Swift with different manifests? More on this and other advanced features of SwiftPM at our docs: docs.swift.org/swiftpm/docu...

Lots of cool new features coming to Swift 6.2 -- including a new opt-in strict memory safety checking mode that identifies and prevents any use of unsafe features. Read more about it here: github.com/swiftlang/sw...

Writing Swift for tiny devices: an article on Playdate game Four Corners, recently rewritten in Swift for faster performance news.play.date/news/four-co... TL;DR "Any game that is particularly demanding that you would typically want to write in C could probably be achieved with Swift."

Some wonderful contributions coming to #Swift from across the world, thanks to #GSOC25. Congratulations to Priyambada Roul for her work on improving Swiftly/VSCode integration. More here: forums.swift.org/t/gsoc-2025-...

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: valkey.io/blog/valkey-...

Packaging #Haskell code for easy Swift interoperability: easy thanks to these tips: alt-romes.github.io/posts/2025-0... @haskell.org

Putting Swift in a box 📦 Tools for containerizing Swift, from a presentation at #OSSummit @linuxfoundation.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV0w...

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

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: github.com/apple/contai...

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

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...

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.app #ServersideSwift culturedcode.com/things/blog/...

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. @openpolicyagent.bsky.social blog.openpolicyagent.org/introducing-...

As the Swift ecosystem grows, we're adding a steering group to help us all coordinate efforts around package and tool development. More here: forums.swift.org/t/announcing...

We're excited by this year's summer of code projects! ⛱️🧑‍💻They focus on improving Swift tooling and language interoperability, from VSCode to Java interop. Check them out here: forums.swift.org/t/gsoc-2025-... #GSOC25

Majid's blog is full of well-written articles on different aspects of Swift. Here's a quick look at one of the new features in Swift 6.1 for test scoping...

🚀 Join us for Swift Server Side Meetup #04 – April 28th, 2025! 💡 Infrastructure as Swift by Andrew Barba + Serverless Swift with Hummingbird & DynamoDB by Natan Rolnik 🕙 10am PT / 18h London / 19h Paris 🔗 www.youtube.com/watc...#04 #SwiftLang #SwiftOnServer

Swift in the cloud - from the #KubeCon keynote: thenewstack.io/day-2-kubeco...

Here's a new way to build a button in Swift -- a real push button! Fun project with embedded Swift: emorydunn.com/blog/2025/03...

📰 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!

How do you install Swift swiftly? With Swiftly, of course! Swiftly is the new default installer and version manager for downloading and updating the standalone Swift toolchain -- on macOS and Linux. ⏩🏁 www.swift.org/blog/introdu...

I tried this today, and now the app I work on professionally has 2,047 fewer lines of code. Feels good!

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...

📦📅 Package of the week: swift-zip-archive 📅📦 Compress or uncompress 🪗 content in just a couple of lines of code with this package, now supported on Windows and Linux as well as Apple platforms, and Swift 6 support! 👏 swiftpackageindex.com/adam-fowler/...

Students -- how would you like to spend the summer contributing to Swift while working with mentors from the Swift team? Lots of great projects to work on, from improving VSCode integration to compiler development. More at: forums.swift.org/t/gsoc-2025-... #GSOC

📦📅 Package of the week: swift-mustache 📅📦 swift-mustache is a powerful templating engine that enables you to generate content by applying a template to your data. Easy to use and effective anywhere you're generating text or source code. #Mustache swiftpackageindex.com/hummingbird-...

When the lights flash, it's a win! @ryantoken.com starts the week off with a great article on serverless Swift -- connecting his smart light bulbs to a backend running in AWS Lambda: www.ryantoken.com/blog/serverl...

Learn more about how the team behind Things, an award-winning personal task manager, rewrote their backend in Swift with a threefold reduction in compute costs: www.swift.org/blog/how-swi... @vapor.codes

👋 from the Swift team, now on Bluesky!