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To clarify a few comments here: this is not only OCI containers: container machines add support for persistence and filesystem mounting, making container machines a great lightweig…

Swift goes further down the stack than you might at first imagine -- there's a lot of Swift written at Apple even in places where you might expect C. The container CLI tool wraps t…

Sounds a bit like "We Didn't Playtest This at All" ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31016/we-didnt-playtest-... ), which is a lot of fun as an icebreaker game in various setti…

Also see https://www.engadget.com/ai/you-can-turn-a-cluster-of-macs-i...

Also announced today… AWS official support for Swift lambdas: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/the-swift-aws-lambda...

In macOS 26, you can see every Rosetta app that has recently run on your machine by going to System Information and then Software / Rosetta Software. It includes the "Fallback Reas…

Ha! But that's not semantically meaningful Swift code in any normal context, nor is it idiomatic. `self` is equivalent to `this` in C++, and is never normally null. You use this co…

This doesn't transpile. It cross-compiles to Android architectures using the NDK. You can see a very simple "hello world" example at the bottom of this article: https://www.swift.o…

It's worth noting that this doesn't add any expectations for how your UI is built. The example shown in the screenshot continues to use Jetpack Compose (Android's native UI) with K…

I didn't understand the introduction here, which says both: > The well-maintained NTFS driver in the Linux kernel enhances interoperability with Windows devices and > Currently, nt…

And just for fun, they also support what must be the most weird encoding system -- UTF-EBCDIC ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5.0?topic=unicode-utf-ebcdic ).

OPA solves the problem of defining and enforcing policies across a system. Some examples: - How do I enforce that inbound API requests come only from trusted sources? - How do I en…

The framework that container uses is built in Swift and also open sourced today, along with the CLI tool itself: https://github.com/apple/containerization

That's built in now -- the default VSCode "Format Document" / "Format Selection" commands work with just the Swift extension installed.

Good news! https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/swift

It runs on Linux-based infrastructure. We've updated the blog post to clarify this. Thanks!

Very feasible. From embedded ( https://www.swift.org/blog/embedded-swift-examples/ ) to Linux apps ( https://www.swift.org/blog/adwaita-swift/ ) to tiny games ( https://www.swift.o…

Working on it: https://github.com/swiftlang/swiftly?tab=readme-ov-file

Of course! Tons of examples here: https://github.com/apple/swift-embedded-examples At WWDC24, we shared a session on embedded Swift, which is available on YouTube: https://www.yout…

It used to be that Hacker News was a place for the inventors, the technologists, and the futurists. What happened to our optimism and excitement for firsts? Airfares have dropped p…

That is exactly the goal of Private Cloud Compute, part of the fabric of Apple Intelligence: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/#:~:te... .