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.
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/container

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...
Assume you have multiple test cases that depend on the same ModelContainer or predefined data. This requires repetitive initialization code for each test suite. Fortunately, Swift Testing introduces test scoping functionality to solve this issue. swiftwithmajid.com/2025/04/15/int…
Packaging #Haskell code for easy Swift interoperability: easy thanks to these tips: alt-romes.github.io/posts/2025-07-… @HaskellOrg
Putting Swift in a box📦Tools for containerizing Swift, from a presentation at #OSSummit @linuxfoundation youtube.com/watch?v=MV0wAC…
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-t… #Android

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

new docs on building @SwiftLang apps in VS Code: code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages… thanks @SwiftLang for the contribution and partnership!
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. @culturedcode #ServersideSwift culturedcode.com/things/blog/20…

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 blog.openpolicyagent.org/introducing-sw…

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-t…

Congrats to this year’s Swift Student Challenge winners & 50 Distinguished Winners! From wildfire safety to expanding access to education, these talented young developers drew inspiration from their local communities to solve real-world problems. apple.com/newsroom/2025/…
We're excited by this year's summer of code projects! ⛱️🧑💻They focus on improving Swift tooling and language interoperability, from @code to @java. Check them out here! forums.swift.org/t/gsoc-2025-ac… #GSOC25

🚀 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 🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=Kis9rr… #SwiftLang #SwiftOnServer
Swift in the cloud - from the #KubeCon keynote by @k_gamanji. thenewstack.io/day-2-kubecon-… #k8s
KubeCon Europe 2025 London Day 2 Keynote: @Apple's Katie Gamanji on Apple's huge open source and cloud native push for Private Cloud Compute (PCC) witth gRPC and the Swift programming language building blocks. @k_gamanji @thenewstack
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/s…
📰Announcing Swift 6.1 📰With ergonomic improvements to concurrency, simpler Objective-C interop, productivity and package improvements: swift.org/blog/swift-6.1… 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. ⏩🏁 swift.org/blog/introduci…
Congratulations to this year's #SwiftStudentChallenge winners and all the students from around the world who participated. A special thank you to the mentors & educators who guided and supported this amazing next generation of innovators. apple.co/ssc25w