Episodes
Jesse and JP talk about Swift 5.5, WWDC 21, how the Swift community has evolved in the 7 years of the language, and wrapping up the show. This is our last episode. Thanks to all our listeners, guests, sponsors and the Spec network for supporting this show over the last 4 years!
Published 06/21/21
Published 06/21/21
Three years after first discussing concurrency in Swift with Chris Lattner, we dive into the latest round of proposals and forum discussions — although this time it is actually happening.
Published 12/07/20
Today we talk about the latest Swift open source project, Swift Atomics. The library you shouldn't use but want to anyway.
Published 11/02/20
Today we welcome special guest, Jordan Rose to discuss implementing the Swift runtime in Swift.
Published 10/12/20
Swift 5.3 will be released very soon. What should we expect?
Published 09/14/20
There's a lot happening recently in the world of package managers, registries and indexes. Let's unwrap that.
Published 08/03/20
Is it pronounced "Tuple" or "Tuple"?
Published 06/18/20
Swift Foundation is now building on Windows and passing all tests, interop with C++ is being discussed on the forums, and new Swift libraries are available.
Published 03/03/20
We discuss recent news, evolution proposals, and Swift 6
Published 02/03/20
We discuss a recent Swift Evolution pitch from Ben Cohen on Modify Accessors.
Published 01/06/20
The way Swift reports compilation diagnostics like errors, warnings and fixits is about to improve in Swift 5.2.
Published 12/02/19
Would you like some Swift in your Swift? The compiler driver is getting a shiny new implementation in Swift and there's no shortage of opportunities to contribute.
Published 11/04/19
The Swift of tomorrow... today! The Standard Library Preview Package would allow you to try out upcoming Swift features before they officially ship with new language versions.
Published 10/07/19
We invite special guest, Doug Gregor, back to the show to discuss all things Swift 5.1
Published 09/16/19
What's one feature missing from the Swift Package Manager that CocoaPods has had for years? Binary dependencies! But how would this work in SPM?
Published 09/02/19
We discuss the new generic math functions coming to Swift, as well as approximate equality for floating point numbers.
Published 08/05/19
A concept that's been in and out of conversation for Swift since 2015, property behaviors - uh, delegates - uh, wrappers - are now back with the full weight of SwiftUI behind it.
Published 07/01/19
In this episode with special guest Keith Smiley, we cover the growing number of tools that let you build things in Swift, a few of which are made by Apple, as well as some others like CMake, Bazel and Buck.
Published 06/02/19
Although we usually discuss new features being added to Swift, this episode is all about removing things from the language.
Published 05/06/19
Published 04/01/19
In what is sure to lead to significant community discussion, there's now a pitch for adding a style guide and formatter to Swift. ​
Published 03/04/19
If this proposal is accepted, we'll be seeing Key Paths in a lot more places.
Published 02/04/19
The Swift project is working on official support for the industry-standard Language Server Protocol and we can barely contain our excitement.
Published 01/07/19
It's the most wonderful time of the year again... the time when the Swift community considers adding a Result type to the standard library. Except that this time it'll probably work!
Published 12/03/18