Swift Evolution Monthly: January ‘24

Smoothing out some rough edges in Swift concurrency. System-level programming with low-level atomics. And many interesting new proposals linked!

Thanks to Antoine’s idea to point to other related newsletters upon subscribing, the number of people receiving this issue more than doubled within the last month, so hello and welcome on board to everyone new! 👋

January was also quite a busy month for me personally. Just as a mini recap, I shipped a huge 2.0 update to my puzzling game CrossCraft and I released a new developer app — String Catalog Translator — after weeks of frustration due to nonsensical rejections by the Review team. 😩 I’d love you to give both a try! The latter even launched on Product Hunt today. 👀

Note that I migrated CrossCraft to visionOS for day 1 of the Apple Vision Pro and even live-streamed the entire process here. I will upload a shorter video there. Speaking of the Vision Pro, I also released another app which I specifically developed for it to fix a flaw in the visionOS user interface. 🕓🔋

On other news, the swift.org website underwent a redesign. I really like how the crowded sidebar was replaced with a more organized top bar! Good job. 👏