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Dave Lester

@davelester.dev

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

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Swift Language@swift.org · 3mo ago

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: www.swift.org/blog/announc...

Announcing the Networking Workgroup

The Swift Ecosystem Steering Group is excited to announce the creation of the Networking workgroup! Workgroups are community-led efforts, formally recognized by the project, to advance key areas of Sw...

swift.org

Kelsey Hightower@kelseyhightower.com · 7mo ago

The @swift.org team is demonstrating a level of consistency that makes me believe they really want to see the Swift programming language thrive outside of the Apple ecosystem.

Swift Language@swift.org · 7mo ago

Windows developers, you're invited! 🪟 We just launched a Windows workgroup to make Swift even better on Windows: improving the toolchain, core packages, API bridging, and deployment experiences. Curious? Interested in contributing? You're welcome here. 👉 swift.org/blog/announcing-windows-workgroup/

Swift Language@swift.org · 10mo ago

Indie developers now have more tools in their toolkit for building with Swift across platforms, thanks to Skip. Exciting to see a Swift community member building a business with the open source Swift SDK for Android. skip.tools/blog/skip-fu... #Android

Skip Fuse is now free for Indie Developers!

Since the launch of the official Swift SDK for Android on swift.org last month, we have been overwhelmed by a surge of interest in building cross-platform apps using a single shared SwiftUI codebase. ...

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Swift Language@swift.org · 11mo ago

Ahead of next week's ServerSide.swift conference in London, organizer and Swift server workgroup member @0xtim.bsky.social looks back at the growth of Swift as a platform for building server apps: www.swift.org/blog/swift-o...

The Growth of the Swift Server Ecosystem

Nearly ten years ago, Swift was open sourced and an official runtime for Linux was released. I’ve been involved with Swift on the server since almost the very beginning, originally picking it up as a ...

swift.org

Swift Language@swift.org · 11mo ago

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 www.swift.org/blog/swift-6...

Swift 6.2 Released

We’re excited to announce Swift 6.2, a release aimed at making every Swift developer more productive, regardless of where or how you write code. From improved tooling and libraries to enhancements in ...

swift.org

Dave Lester@davelester.dev · last yr.

Developing Swift on server? Less than two weeks to submit a talk for @serversideswift.info, a conference taking place October 2/3 in London, UK that @0xTim.bsky.social is organizing once again this year! CFP closes July 10, 2025 23:59 UTC. www.papercall.io/serversidesw... #SwiftLang

PaperCall.io - ServerSide.swift 2025

ServerSide.swift is a framework-independent, server-side Swift conference, to bring all of the community toghether to learn and share. The conference is aimed at being a non-profit conference and…

papercall.io

Sensory Ecology Lab@sensoryecology.bsky.social · last yr.

“Our eyes could potentially be coaxed into a special repair mode above and beyond our natural self-healing abilities, according to a new study, thanks to the delivery of antibodies that trigger nerve cell regeneration in the retina.” #scicomm #neuroskyence www.sciencealert.com/experimental... 🧪 🧠 👁️

Experimental Drug Tested in Mice Repairs The Eye to Restore Vision

Our eyes could potentially be coaxed into a special repair mode above and beyond our natural self-healing abilities, according to a new study, thanks to the delivery of antibodies that trigger nerve c...

sciencealert.com