Dave Lester

Developer tools and open source ecosystems. Product @ Apple. @swiftlang.📍 San Francisco

[Swift Language @SwiftLang]

A unified networking stack for Swift, layered from low-level I/O primitives, through common protocols, to a modern HTTP client and server API. ⚙️ That's what the new Networking workgroup is building. Interested in contributing? Join us: https://t.co/IFgoC3oxzB

[Dave Lester @davelester]

My favorite part of the latest digest? The two Embedded Swift talks it links to. One of them demos Swift on a Game Boy Advance!

[Swift Language @SwiftLang]

Inside the latest ‘What’s new in Swift’ digest: two talks on Embedded Swift, a guest contribution highlighting a Swift client for Valkey, new packages, and more: https://t.co/d7cgdAlhiS

[Swift Language @SwiftLang]

Your digest of everything new in Swift has just landed! Read up on the latest release, community projects, evolution proposals, and videos from across the ecosystem: https://t.co/wOh4GGG33C

[Swift Language @SwiftLang]

🗞️News from Swift: web apps, a new mail stack, 3D printing, embedded Swift updates, and some community events. Read all about it in the latest Swift blog post: https://t.co/Ax80ZMrG0i

[Dave Lester @davelester]

Happy New Year, @SwiftLang crew! So happy to be back, I hope everyone enjoyed some time off.

If you're looking to catch up on Swift news, check out the December digest: https://t.co/VWtDmhwWh0 and let me know what you think!

[Swift Language @SwiftLang]

🎉 10 years of open source Swift! A decade ago today, we opened Swift to the world with a simple blog post: https://t.co/MF8ni9SE0Q

What's grown since—thanks to an incredible community of contributors—has been extraordinary. Here's to the next ten years. 🧡

[Lucas ✦ @lucaslovexoxo]

Today I played around with Embedded Swift to build a hello world app for the Pebble and was able to run it on my almost 10 year old Pebble Time Round.

[Dave Lester @davelester]

Excited about this release for the #swiftlang and @temporalio communities.

[Swift Language @SwiftLang]

Managing long-running, stateful workflows in Swift just got a whole lot easier. The new Temporal SDK brings first-class support for building reliable, fault-tolerant applications. https://t.co/PMOhuiDrOK @temporalio

[Swift Language @SwiftLang]

Indie developers now have more tools in their toolkit for building with Swift across platforms, thanks to @skiptools. Exciting to see a Swift community member building a business with the open source Swift SDK for Android. https://t.co/mxrTqJwJbs #Android

[Swift Language @SwiftLang]

It's been a busy month for Swift, with lots of project updates to share. Here's a digest of the latest news: https://t.co/iE6aoZSTOQ

[Swift Language @SwiftLang]

📣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. https://t.co/UAR6LO3prQ #Android

[Swift Language @SwiftLang]

New tooling for profiling performance-critical services with Swift -- introducing the Swift Profile Recorder. More here: https://t.co/WXBUVcnJ1k

[Swift Language @SwiftLang]

Ahead of next week's ServerSide.swift conference in London, organizer and Swift server workgroup member @0xTim looks back at the growth of Swift as a platform for building server apps: https://t.co/cjE7jwrvUv @SwiftServerConf

[Dave Lester @davelester]

Two weeks until @SwiftServerConf at The Science Museum in London! A conference all about @SwiftLang on the server. Looking forward to joining in-person and connecting with the community. #swiftlang

[Swift Language @SwiftLang]

Swift 6.2 is here, including so much 🆕🥳:
⏩Approachable concurrency
🦺Opt-in strict memory safety
📦WebAssembly support
🏃Faster build perf for macros
🐞Enhanced async debugging
📚Inline stack-based arrays
🚇Subprocess support
🧪Test result attachments
https://t.co/sQrluRKcJQ

[Dave Lester @davelester]

Developing Swift on server? Less than two weeks to submit a talk for @SwiftServerConf, a conference taking place October 2/3 in London, UK that @0xTim is organizing once again this year! CFP closes July 10, 2025 23:59 UTC. https://t.co/uF0BoQYqp7 #SwiftLang

[Dave Lester @davelester]

Join the @swiftlang server meetup group online in less than an hour. Talks feature embedded Swift and edge AI https://t.co/hQbcfXgAny #swiftlang

[Swift Language @SwiftLang]

The story behind the Apple Password Monitoring service, handling multiple billions of requests per day from devices all over the world, which was recently rewritten in Swift: https://t.co/OWAEkRUaXc

[Konrad ‘ktoso’ Malawski 🐟🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 @ktosopl]

Introducing the seamless Java/Swift interop effort!

Offering both:
- generated Swift macro based JNI wrappers
- Project Panama based Swift accessors generated with a jextract-swift tool for high performance use-cases

Early prototype is open source and we’ll share more about our plans and invite folks to collaborate early next week!

https://t.co/CU2QuIjBIq

#ServerSideSwift2024

[Dave Lester @davelester]

UC Davis Library is hiring a community manager to support the work of the University of California (UC) Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Network https://t.co/e6SqKh1Aan #ospo