Swift Language

@SwiftLang

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

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Swift Language
@SwiftLang
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Lots of cross-platform Swift news this month. ElementaryUI brings Swift to the web, SwiftTUI brings state and animations to the terminal, and Swift on Windows keeps getting better. Read more in our latest digest:
swift.org
What's new in Swift: August 2026 Edition
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community.
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Swift Language
@SwiftLang
Aug 25
At last: a unified home for Swift documentation, pulling together the language reference, core libraries and tooling, and platform specifics into a single central home, no matter what you're building! Check it out and give us feedback: docs.swift.org
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Swift Language
@SwiftLang
Aug 21
Circleback didn't port an app to Swift, instead using it as a portable systems layer that provides the connective tissue between an Electron UI and some underlying platform dependencies (ScreenCaptureKit on macOS, libobs on Windows). Interesting approach:
How we rebuilt our Electron recording engine in Swift - Circleback
From circleback.ai
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Swift Language
@SwiftLang
Aug 20
Embedded Swift is a subset of Swift built for tiny, constrained hardware, with far smaller binaries while keeping the language you already know. Swift 6.4 brings it closer to full Swift than ever, supporting "any" types, untyped throws, and metatypes.
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Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.4
Embedded Swift is a subset of Swift that’s designed for low resource usage, making it capable of running on constrained environments like microcontrollers. Using a special compilation mode, Embedded...
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Swift Language
@SwiftLang
Aug 14
What's the difference between a package index and a package registry? One helps you discover packages, the other hosts and serves them. 📦 A new post explains how they fit together. Read more:
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What is a package registry? on the Swift Package Index Blog – Swift Package Index
SwiftPM tooling has three main components – SwiftPM resolves dependencies for the compiler, a package index helps you discover packages, and a package registry hosts and serves verified, immutable so…
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