Doug Schaefer

What's new in Swift: December 2025 Edition Welcome to the latest digest of news from the Swift project.

🗓️2025 was a great year for Swift 🍾 Thank you all for choosing Swift. We're ending the year with a digest of what's been going on in the project and community recently. 🗞️ Read up here: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...

Just watched a video on EV performance on a Saskatoon night (where I went to university) at -35C. Used a lot of battery but the car performed great. And you know, I miss that adventure of waking up to -35C and heading to school and the sound of the snow crunching under your feet.

My fave tip for dev #swiftlang -> Linux, check how your Swift package compiles while on your mac w/ container:

container run -it -c 4 -m 8g \
-v "$(pwd):/src" -w src/ \
swift:6.2 sh -c "swift build"

(runs a Swift 6.2 image, gives it 4CPU and 8GB, mounts your PWD as "src", and builds)

I spent many years in the Eclipse community and was so privileged to be immersed in their passion for building great things and lasting friendships. The last few weeks attending Swift community meetups, I'm seeing that passion again. I feel so at home!

GitHub - xtremekforever/swift-stm32c011-examples: A few examples of running Swift on the STM32C0116-DK A few examples of running Swift on the STM32C0116-DK - xtremekforever/swift-stm32c011-examples

Beautiful idiomatic Swift running in 6K RAM and 32K Flash? Fantastic work xtremekforever! github.com/xtremekforev...

Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.3 Embedded Swift is a subset of Swift that’s designed for low resource usage, making it capable of running on constrained environments like microcontrollers. Using a special compilation mode, Embedded S...

I can't wait to see where the community takes Swift on embedded platforms, microcontrollers like Doug G and Rauhul talk about here or even bigger and at the edge. www.swift.org/blog/embedde...

Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.3 Embedded Swift is a subset of Swift that’s designed for low resource usage, making it capable of running on constrained environments like microcontrollers. Using a special compilation mode, Embedded S...

I can't wait to see where the community takes Swift on embedded platforms, microcontrollers like Doug and Rauhul talk about here or even bigger and on edge. www.swift.org/blog/embedde...

Swift - Java interop I think it’s pretty critical to embed Swift as a server side language. If you can begin a transition incrementally, it’s always easier to move over.

Super cool to see this work, and congrats to Mads!

"I was under duress," Prince Harry explained in an interview with Canadian broadcaster CTV News after apologizing. "There wasn't much choice. I was invited to the Dodgers dugout by the owner. I was doing what I thought was the polite thing to do."
https://cnn.it/3WJfonf

What's new in Swift: October 2025 Edition Editor Note: This is the first of a new series, What’s new in Swift, a monthly digest featuring what’s new in the Swift project and ecosystem, with insights and perspectives from across the Swift worl...

The Swift project is starting up digest posts on their blog, and I had the good fortune to be the guest voice, sharing some of the cool things from October. www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...

I kind of expect the format to morph as we try this out, but i’m really happy to see this happenin’ #swiftlang

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

It's been a busy month for Swift, with lots of project updates to share. Here's a digest of the latest news: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...

Oh, yeah. Nice. We've been getting the Fan games up here on our TSN radio station. So glad they did. Ben Shulman sounds so much like his dad. Great broadcast too.

That is the way. Nice :)

Everything fine on Roger’s Cable. Heard others having trouble too. Streaming is hard I guess.

Excited by the progress the team is making. A modern build system for SwiftPM!

You know, that's not a horrible idea.

And it was a 9 run inning, lol. Wasn't expecting that but been happening all playoff long. Fun team to watch.

New phone, sent to the gmail I had for you.

Definitely felt like a statement. It's the Canadian way, nice and subtle :).

Introducing Swift Configuration Hi Swift Community! Today, we’re pleased to announce the initial release of Swift Configuration: a new library that provides a unified approach to reading configuration in your Swift applications. C...

Introducing Swift Configuration 🎉

You'll also hear more about it at @serversideswift.info next week! 🏎️

forums.swift.org/t/introducin...

Finding I'm spending most of my time on Twitter. Tech influencers I enjoy listening to are there. And as long as I stay on the "Following" tab, I seem to avoid much of the nonsense.

Didn’t stop Alberta 🤣

I would be all in on that! Have been many times there in business. The people there are what we aspire to. Unless you’re in the 51st state camp.

Neither is Great Britain but they got in. And Ireland is still there.

I read that as they are still working hard at getting the penalty nullified.

When busy at work late into the evening making SwiftPM the best it can be, great to throw up Star Wars A New Hope to remind me what brought me to this game. Can't wait to focus more on Swift Embedded in SwiftPM to get it onto robots like this 😀 🤖 .

Love it that it’s a regular occurrence I turn on golf and there’s a Canadian on the leaderboard. What a great crop of players now.

loving the swift community rally around #swiftlang as the main hashtag for the language itself. it is so hard sifting through taylor swift and the financial network to engage with yall 😂

i think #swiftlang and platform would be cool to see too like #swiftlang #linux

spread the word :)

Am I weird that I always feel the urge to thank Siri for doing something for me like set a timer?

Canada’s Liberal Party chooses Mark Carney to succeed Justin Trudeau | CNN Mark Carney has been elected leader of Canada’s Liberal Party in a months-long, high stakes race to replace Justin Trudeau.

JUST IN: Mark Carney has been elected as leader of Canada's Liberal Party in high stakes race to replace Justin Trudeau.