A new hot take on the Foundation library has been announced by Tony Parker at the ServerSide.swift conference! Open source, and 100% Swift~! It also means full 1:1 parity between platforms, there is no more "the other foundation impl" (corelibs) 🎉 #swift pic by Moritz Lang :)

The Swift for Visual Studio Code extension is out of preview and ready for use. Congratulations to all the contributors! forums.swift.org/t/vscode-swift…

Excited to launch areweserveryet.org today! 🎉 Heavily inspired by Rust’s Are We Web Yet site, we hope to grow it into a solid resource for showcasing Swift on the Server and a comprehensive collection of packages to use.

And today is the day. In a few hours [email protected] and I will be delivering the "Write a #Microservice With #Rust and #MongoDB" hands-on #webinar. You can still join us: mongodb.com/webinar/write-… It is #free and you will also get access to the full repo with all the code.

For a long time I was confused by #rustlang trait implementations and how they interact with references. Now I understand them enough to be able to explain them in a blog post! judy.co.uk/blog/rust-trai… (My first real Rust language blog post - be kind!)

A formulation for scoped tasks in Rust tmandry.gitlab.io/blog/posts/202…

The Swift Package Index is now sponsored by Apple. Read the history of this popular service from @daveverwer and Sven A. Schmidt: swift.org/blog/swift-pac…

Swift 5.8 is now available! This release contains many enhancements including support for hasFeature(), an improved Result Builder implementation, updates to Swift-DocC and the Swift Package Manager, and more. swift.org/blog/swift-5.8…

A new version of Foundation launched today as an open source project, written in Swift. This project provides a single, cross-platform implementation and shows significant performance improvements. swift.org/blog/foundatio…

Super excited to announce the 0.1.0 release of swiftly, a new Swift toolchain installer and manager! Check it out here, we would love to hear your feedback: forums.swift.org/t/introducing-… (currently Linux only)

Swift 5.9 is now available! This is a major new release that introduces macros to Swift, adds bi-directional interoperability with C++, and more. Read the blog post to see what's new. swift.org/blog/swift-5.9…

The SSWG's Community Survey for 2023 has one week left. Want to provide your feedback for use or desired use of Swift on the server? You don't have long left! swift.org/sswg-survey-20…

swiftly 0.2.0 has been released! Notable changes include the introduction of the update and self-update commands. Full release notes here: github.com/swift-server/s…

The Swift Server Workgroup has published their annual update on the progress of the Swift server ecosystem, including its first-ever community survey. swift.org/blog/sswg-upda…

swiftly 0.3.0 has been released! notable changes include support for PGP signature verification (by default) during toolchain installation, as well as support for installing swiftly using fish shell. full release notes here: github.com/swift-server/s…

Swiftly and vscode-swift repositories from the swift-server organization now join the GitHub.com/swiftlang organization. Thank you, Adam Fowler 📸 , Patrick Freed , and the Swift community, and I am excited to see them continue to grow in the swiftlang organization.

Join me in exploring the Swift on Server ecosystem in developer.apple.com/wwdc24/10216! Learn why Swift on Server is great for developing server applications and how it is powering many features across Apple's cloud services serving millions of requests per second! 🚀

Swift-foundation is now included as part of the swift.org nightly toolchains. Check out Tony Parker post on the forums. forums.swift.org/t/swift-founda…

Announcing the release of Swift 6! 🎉🎉🎉 🦺Extended memory safety protections 🪟Embedded and cross-platform support 🧪Swift Testing: parameterized, macro-based testing Read more: swift.org/blog/announcin…

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. ⏩🏁 swift.org/blog/introduci…