Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.

Version 1.0 of the Swift Visual Studio Code extension is out. It is no longer in preview. This version has a couple of minor additions to v0.10.0 plus a number of bug fixes. You can find the change...

The Foundation framework is used in nearly all Swift projects. It provides both a base layer of functionality for fundamentals like strings, collections, and dates, as well as setting conventions for...

The Swift project is introducing new downloadable Swift toolchain images for Windows! These images contain development components needed to build and run Swift code on Windows.

I’m pleased to announce that a preview of the future of Foundation is now available on GitHub!

I’m thrilled to announce Swift Collections, a new open-source package focused on extending the set of available Swift data structures. Like the Swift Algorithms and Swift Numerics packages before it,...

We’re happy to announce that "The Swift Programming Language" book is now an open source project. This new project will be the basis of publishing the book on Swift.org in the future (more details...

Swift 5.9 is now available! 🎉

As part of Swift’s move toward safe, simple, and performant asynchronous programming, we are pleased to introduce a new package of algorithms for AsyncSequence. It is called Swift Async Algorithms...

We’re thrilled to announce the Swift Mentorship Program — a new contributor program for the Swift community and part of the Diversity in Swift initiative. The Swift Mentorship Program is designed to...

Swift 5.8 is now officially released! 🎉 This release includes major additions to the language and standard library, including hasFeature to support piecemeal adoption of upcoming features, an...

Greetings fellow Swifters, Currently there is an unofficial Docker image for Swift supported by the SwiftDocker (docker-swift) project. The Core Team would like to integrate support for an official...

I’m excited to announce a new open-source project for the Swift ecosystem, Swift Numerics! Swift Numerics will provide the building blocks of numerical computing in Swift, as a set of fine-grained...

Swift 5.6 is now officially released!

The Swift.org site has long served as the hub where developers come together to work on the open source Swift compiler, libraries, and tools. Today, we are happy to announce that the Swift.org...

Open-source implementation of a substantial portion of the API of Apple CryptoKit suitable for use on Linux platforms. - apple/swift-crypto

Swift was designed to be safe by default, preventing entire categories of programming mistakes at compile time. Sources of undefined behavior in C-based languages, such as using variables before...

Swift 5.7 is now officially released! Swift 5.7 includes major additions to the language and standard library, enhancements to the compiler for a better developer experience, improvements to tools in...

We’re excited to announce a new open source package called Swift HTTP Types.

6 years ago, Swift was announced. In the years since, a thriving community has emerged around a shared passion for building and using the Swift programming language. This community has spread far...

I’m excited to announce Swift Algorithms, a new open-source package of sequence and collection algorithms, along with their related types.

Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose June 3 through June 7 at the McEnery Convention Center. 

In June, Apple introduced Swift System, a new library for Apple platforms that provides idiomatic interfaces to system calls and low-level currency types. Today, I’m excited to announce that we’re...

It is my pleasure to announce a new set of Linux distributions officially supported by the Swift project. Swift.org now offers downloadable toolchain and Docker images for the following new Linux...

Building a thriving open source ecosystem is important to Swift’s success, and open source packages are the building blocks that help power countless Swift projects. As the number of packages...

We’re thrilled to announce a new open-source package for the Swift on Server ecosystem, Swift Distributed Actors, a complete server-oriented cluster library for the upcoming distributed actor...

The Swift project has achieved a critical milestone of maturity of the core fundamentals, providing stability for users to invest in using Swift in earnest. On Apple's platforms such as macOS and...

It is my pleasure to announce a new open source project for the Swift server ecosystem, Swift Service Lifecycle. Service Lifecycle is a Swift package designed to help server applications, also known...

The Swift programming language has a lot of potential to be used for machine learning research because it combines the ease of use and high-level syntax of a language like Python with the speed of a...

Swift is well-suited for creating user interfaces thanks to the clean syntax, static typing, and special features making code easier to write. Result builders, combined with Swift’s closure express...

I am delighted to introduce a new open source project for the Swift Server ecosystem, SwiftNIO SSH. Distributed as a Swift package, SwiftNIO SSH is designed to enable Swift developers to interact...

I’m excited to announce a new open-source package and an enhancement to the Swift Evolution process: the Standard Library Preview package! The preview package provides access to functionality that...

This post was originally published at Speaking in Swift by The Browser Company under the title “Interoperability: Swift’s Super Power”.

The Swift community has accomplished a great deal together, with hundreds of changes to Swift through the Swift Evolution process and significant advances to the language and tooling since Swift...

Get the latest news and helpful tips on the Swift programming language from the engineers who created it.

As recently announced by @akyrtzi, we have been working on a new language service for Swift and C-family languages based on the Language Server Protocol (LSP). I am excited to say that the source...

Learn how to use the latest features on Apple platforms to build and optimize your apps for the classroom.

Developer Spotlight is a series highlighting interesting Swift developers from around the world. This post is authored by Ron Avitzur, author of the Pacific Tech Graphing Calculator.

It has been a longstanding goal to stabilize Swift’s ABI on macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS. While a stable ABI is an important milestone for the maturity of any language, the ultimate benefit to the...

Diagnostics play a very important role in a programming language experience. It’s vital for developer productivity that the compiler can produce proper guidance in any situation, especially incompl...

It is my pleasure to announce a new open source project for the Swift Server ecosystem, Swift Service Discovery. Service Discovery is a Swift package designed to establish a standard API that can be...

I’m delighted to announce Swift Atomics, a new open source package that enables direct use of low-level atomic operations in Swift code. The goal of this library is to enable intrepid systems...

Get the latest news and helpful tips on the Swift programming language from the engineers who created it.

Today, Swift.org gains a useful, new top-level Packages page.

Hey all, At Apple we are making it a priority to support high-quality tooling for all Swift developers, including those working on non-Apple platforms. We want to collaborate with the open-source...

Hi everyone, Swift is applying to participate in Google Summer of Code this year again. We had some great projects last year (4 out of 4 completed successfully), and this year we wanted to give the...

We’re excited to announce a set of open source libraries designed to help both client and server developers streamline their workflow around HTTP communication using the industry‑standard OpenAPI...

We’re pleased to introduce a repository of example projects that demonstrate how Embedded Swift can be used to develop software on a range of microcontrollers.

Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.

Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.

As Swift is deployed across more platforms, it is important that Swift can be developed on more platforms as well. The Swift Extension for Visual Studio Code provides a cross-platform solution for...

The Swift Server Workgroup has maintained a set of open source guides for Swift on Server development for a number of years. Now that swift.org is open source, we’ve moved the guides to this site.

I’m thrilled to announce the formation of the Documentation Workgroup!

We’re happy to announce that The Swift Programming Language book (TSPL) is now published using Swift-DocC, starting with Swift 5.8. TSPL is now ready to start accepting content contributions, under...

With the release of Swift 5.0, Swift is now ABI stable and is delivered as a core component of macOS, iOS, tvOS, and watchOS. ABI stability has been a goal for Swift since its inception, and brings...

This Women’s History Month, we’re so happy to celebrate the amazing women developers in our community. Women have made an immense impact on the Swift ecosystem by building important tools we use...

Property wrappers were introduced in Swift 5.1 as a way to make it easier to reuse common programming patterns, but since then they have grown to work with local context, function and closure...

ServerSide.swift - the conference for server-side Swift developers

Now it’s easier to discover and share information presented in WWDC videos with our recent search update. You can search a keyword and find all the instances of it mentioned in the videos. Go...

There’s a lot of exciting work going on in the Swift project, and it’s hard to keep track of it all because it’s happening in many different repositories, pull requests, and forum threads. To give...

Once a year, the Swift Server workgroup (SSWG) reflects on recent community accomplishments and lays out focus areas for the year ahead.

Apple has 297 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

The new Swift 5.9 release contains a number of helpful, new features for debugging code, including an out-of-process, interactive crash handler to inspect crashes in real time, the ability to trigger...

The Swift 5 release enables runtime checking of “Exclusive Access to Memory” by default in Release builds, further enhancing Swift’s capabilities as a safe language. In Swift 4, these runtime checks...

In the world of software development, the old adage “make it work, make it right, make it fast” serves as a guiding principle for creating robust, efficient applications. This journey starts with...

Swift 5.9 introduced a number of new debugging features to the compiler and LLDB debugger.

‎Xcode includes everything developers need to create great applications for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro. Xcode provides developers a unified workflow for user...

The Swift 4.1 compiler brings the next phase of improvements from the roadmap for generics: conditional conformances.

We’re happy to announce the stable 1.0 release of Swift OpenAPI Generator! OpenAPI is an open standard for describing the behavior of HTTP services with a rich ecosystem of tooling. One thing OpenAPI...

In Swift 4.1 the compiler now supports a new optimization mode which enables dedicated optimizations to reduce code size.

Since the last update from the SSWG, the Swift on Server ecosystem has continued to grow and expand.

Swift bugs are moving to GitHub Issues and we need your help! Swift's open source project issues are currently in JIRA, making it difficult for developers to discover and integrate them into our...