Swift Language

🏗️ What if your whole stack was built with Swift? @telemetrydeck@social.telemetrydeck.com made it a reality, building an internet-scale, privacy-first analytics backend from the ground up. Read their story: https://www.swift.org/blog/building-privacy-first-analytics-with-swift/

Great language support means nothing without great tooling. Watch @jdevlieghere@mastodon.social show how LLDB brings first-class debugging to Swift on WebAssembly. https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/87ZLQV-wasm-debugging-lldb/ #Wasm #fosdem

Swift/JS interop used to mean "JSObject", "JSValue", and runtime surprises.

BridgeJS changes that: annotate your Swift, get typed glue code in both directions. Compile-time safe. Zero manual boilerplate. 🧵

Lots of great things happening with Swift: here’s the latest edition of our news digest: https://www.swift.org/blog/whats-new-in-swift-february-2026/

Swift 6.2.4: available with swiftly install latest ✅
Bugs: fixed 🔨
Builds: faster ⚡️
Closures: smoother 🧈
Details: here 🔗 https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-swift-6-2-4/85050

🚀 New libraries for @graphql@mastodon.social on Vapor and Hummingbird dropped!

Expose GraphQL APIs with just one line of code:
routeBuilder.graphql(schema: schema) { ... }

✅ Full spec compliance
✅ WebSocket subscriptions
✅ Built-in GraphiQL IDE

Check them out 👇
https://forums.swift.org/t/introducing-graphql-vapor-hummingbird-packages/84758

📐Announcing Swift System Metrics 1.0! 🎉 A stable API for process-level monitoring on Linux and macOS. Add it to your service in a few lines, plug into Prometheus or OTel, and start visualizing in Grafana. Contributions welcome! https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-system-metrics-1.0-released/

🗞️News from Swift: web apps, a new mail stack, 3D printing, embedded Swift updates, and some community events. Read all about it in the latest Swift blog post: https://www.swift.org/blog/whats-new-in-swift-january-2026/

📽️ Lots of fun projects being showcased on the forums recently. Here are a few recent favorites... Check out https://forums.swift.org/c/community-showcase/ for more!

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/

📚Check out this beautiful contribution by
@peterfriese@iosdev.space: 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@mastodon.social

"Build a balance bike, not training wheels." Doug Gregor's talk at Swift Craft describes Swift's progressive disclosure: start with the simple stuff, reach for the advanced stuff when you need it, and never have to throw out what you've learned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opqKGgJavkw @swiftcraft@hachyderm.io @dgregor79@sfba.social

FOSDEM, the legendary open source gathering in Brussels, is coming soon, and we'd love to see you there! We've got multiple talks on Swift plus a pre-FOSDEM community meetup. Whether you're a longtime attendee or new to the event, come say hi! 👋 https://swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/ #FOSDEM

Always interesting to see new Swift projects pop up on Hacker News. Here's one that's trending right now: https://github.com/tomasf/Cadova

🗓️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: https://www.swift.org/blog/whats-new-in-swift-december-2025/

Exploring the Swift SDK for Android: updates on ongoing progress! https://www.swift.org/blog/exploring-the-swift-sdk-for-android/

Planning to attend FOSDEM next year? Here's a guide to some of the Swift talks and connection events that will take place: https://swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/

Planning to attend FOSDEM next year? Here's a guide to some of the Swift talks and connection events that will take place: https://swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/

Planning to attend FOSDEM next year? Here's a guide to some of the Swift talks and connection events that will take place: https://swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/

Planning to attend FOSDEM next year? Here's a guide to some of the Swift talks and connection events that will take place: https://swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/

Planning to attend FOSDEM next year? Here's a guide to some of the Swift talks and connection events that will take place: https://swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/

⚙️ 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/

Swift 6.2.2 is here. This maintenance release includes minor bug fixes to keep your development running smoothly. Install via swiftly (Mac/Linux), Docker, or directly from our website. More here: https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-swift-6-2-2/83637

🎉 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. 🧡

📣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. https://www.swift.org/blog/nightly-swift-sdk-for-android/ #android

Ahead of next week's ServerSide.swift conference in London, organizer and Swift server workgroup member @0xTim@hachyderm.io looks back at the growth of Swift as a platform for building server apps: https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-on-the-server-ecosystem/ @swiftserverconf@hachyderm.io