📣Announcing the first preview releases of Swift for Android, enabling you to build Android business logic with the same Swift that you use for Apple platforms. swift.org/blog/nightly-s… #Android
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Swift is a general-purpose programming language that's fast, modern, safe, and a joy to write. Designed for all, developed in the open.
Joined May 2014
- 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
- Open sourcing Xcode's build engine -- introducing swift-build:
- Swift 5.5 is now officially released! Swift 5.5 is a massive release that includes newly-introduced language capabilities for concurrency, including async/await, structured concurrency, and Actors.
- The Swift for Visual Studio Code extension is out of preview and ready for use. Congratulations to all the contributors!
- Foundation is being rewritten with Swift and will be developed as an open source community effort. @illian explains:
- Introducing Swift on Windows. New toolchain image is available for Windows, downloadable from Swift.org. To learn more: swift.org/blog/swift-on-…
- 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 5.1 is now officially released! Learn more about it here: swift.org/blog/swift-5-1…
- Swift 5.2 is now released! swift.org/blog/swift-5-2…
- Announcing the release of Swift 6! 🎉🎉🎉 🦺Extended memory safety protections 🪟Embedded and cross-platform support 🧪Swift Testing: parameterized, macro-based testing Read more:
- Swift 5.4 is now released! It includes new language features as well as tooling improvements. Read more about it here: swift.org/blog/swift-5-4…




