Swift Language

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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.

VSCode disassembling generated WebAssembly code from a Swift breakpoint.

The BridgeJS Playground at https://swiftwasm.org/JavaScriptKit/PlayBridgeJS/

Swift System Metrics visualized in Grafana, demonstrating what's possible with real-time monitoring.

“After 20 years of shipping web applications, I have never seen fewer crashes and bugs make it to production. Performance has also been excellent, especially after moving our templates to Elementary. Our heaviest pages make it to the browser in less than 100ms.” (Nick Sloan, Studioworks)

Swift Community Showcase featuring recent projects: Swift Argument Parser alternative, Swift for Yocto embedded Linux, LLM Context Management, GraphQL Generator build plugin, ElementaryUI web framework, Service dependency injection for Swift Concurrency, Algebraic Effects, Iris 2D game engine, monocle CLI for coding agents, Typhoon async retry framework, Alarik S3-compatible storage, and TaylorTorch LibTorch wrapper. Stats: 12+ projects this month, 500+ total community showcases.

A preview image of the typeset book.

import Foundation

let calendar = Calendar.current

let openSourceDay = calendar.date(from: DateComponents(year: 2015, month: 12, day: 3))!
let anniversary = calendar.date(byAdding: .year, value: 10, to: openSourceDay)!

if calendar.isDateInToday(anniversary) {
print("10 Years of Swift open source! 🎉")
}

Screenshot of Amazon Linux 2023 installing Swift with one command.

87 authors have pushed 883 commits to all branches of the swift project.

Screenshot of Elytra's RSS reader app.

let config = ConfigReader(providers: [
EnvironmentVariablesProvider(),
try await JSONProvider(filePath: "/etc/config.json")
])
let httpTimeout = config.int(forKey: "http.timeout", default: 60)
print(httpTimeout) // prints 15

$let result = await #expect( processExitsWith: .success, observing: [\.standardOutputContent] ) { snakify("This is precious...") } if let result { let expected = Array("Thisssss isssss preciousssss...".utf8) #expect(result.standardOutputContent.contains(expected)) }$

An illustrative screenshot of Swift on Android.

# Make sure the container service is started
container system start

# Pull a local copy of the Swift container image
container images pull swift

# List all the container images installed locally
container images list

# Run the Swift container
container run -it --name swift-container swift

In comparison with the previous Java service, the updated backend delivers a 40% increase in performance, along with improved scalability, security, and availability.

Image from https://www.openpolicyagent.org, used under the Apache 2.0 license.

An illustrative image of a resort pool with a big screen for Swift code.

let fileContents = try ZipArchiveReader.withFile("MyFile.zip") { reader in
let directory = try reader.readDirectory()
let fileHeader = directory.first { $0.filename == "File.txt"}
return try reader.readFile(fileHeader)
}

An example of using swift-mustache.

A diagram that shows the various components of the Things backend built in Swift, including Vapor, SwiftNIO, AWS, Redis and Kubernetes.