Lifting limitations on Xcode, Result Builder variables, Existential arguments, testable Clocks, and Back-Deploying Functions — October has been a very busy month for me for two great reasons: Firstly, my love for the great country of 🇯🇵 Japan and its people has made me plan for a long-term trip to the country for a long time, and this plan just became a reality this month…

Say hello to ReMafoX, the app on the mission to simplify developer life by providing new workflows for localization when working with Xcode. — After 90 days of Beta-testing, time for the public release on the Mac App Store! Features This first release is already jam-packed with many features that’ll help you: Focus: Don’t ever leave the context of your Swift file — keep coding Be Faster: No longer manually edit Strings files when adding…

Conditional Attributes, StaticBigInt, Stable Sorting, Isolated deinit After multiple months full of really impactful and fast-paced changes to Swift, such as all the improvements to Generics, the introduction of a shiny new Regex engine, and kicking off the next chapter of programming with distributed actors, things have slowed down a…

My first Indie App, my first Evolution pitch experience, the last of 6 Regex proposals, external conformance warning, implicit [weak self] capture & a new ‘move’ keyword. — Here we are again with another monthly summary of Swift Evolution. July was a very special month for me, so I’d like to start with two topics that are important to me personally. I hope you’ll excuse that — but both are still on-topic:

WWDC22, new `@const` attribute, improved `some`, convenient Generic extensions, and Swift 6 feature flags for early adopters. — WWDC22 brought so many new APIs that despite me watching and summarizing over 20 sessions in just the first week, I still haven’t watched all sessions I marked as favorite yet and am still watching 5–10 sessions a week. …

How to enjoy both Keynotes with other developers (remotely) and how to maximize your learnings throughout the week. If you can invest the time — Apple hosts a developer conference each year since as early as 1983 (so next year will technically be the 40th anniversary!), even if it officially holds the name “World Wide Developer Conference”, or short “WWDC” only since 1990. …

Regex overhaul (pt. II), Swift Snippets, new Workgroups Last month I presented the first two Regex (or String-processing) related proposals, stating that they are just “kicking off a series of Regex-related proposals”. And here we are, Regexes still being the main focus — and they will probably still be in next month’s issue. But that doesn’t mean nothing…

From the cheapest viable option to the best value Mac for iOS Developers. I see people asking questions about which hardware to get for iOS development quite often, especially beginners just starting out but also sometimes more experienced developers who start running into performance issues with their current Mac. As…

Regex overhaul, improved Existentials, Swift 5.7 timeline — Wow, this is just the 2nd issue of this newsletter and nearly 300 developers subscribed to it, already! All thanks to Dave and others from the community for spreading the word. Thank you! 🙏 I heard your feedback: You’re right, the first issue was too long. Partly because it was…