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Announcing the Windows Workgroup We are excited to announce the creation of the Windows workgroup! The primary goal is to ensure ongoing support for Swift on Windows, enabling users to develop Windows applications using Swift. Read more

  • Language

    Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift

    There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct interoperability with C. With a little setup, you can directly use existing C libraries from your Swift code.

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  • Developer Tools

    Announcing Swift System Metrics 1.0: Process-Level Monitoring

    We are excited to announce the 1.0 release of Swift System Metrics, a Swift package that collects process-level system metrics like CPU utilization time and memory usage. Swift System Metrics runs on both Linux and macOS, providing a common API across platforms.

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  • Adopters

    Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring service from Java

    Swift is heavily used in production for building cloud services at Apple, with incredible results. Last year, the Password Monitoring service was rewritten in Swift, handling multiple billions of requests per day from devices all over the world. In comparison with the previous Java service, the updated backend delivers a 40% increase in performance, along with improved scalability, security, and availability.

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  • Digest

    What's new in Swift: January 2026 Edition

    A Reddit thread earlier this month asked about building web apps with Swift. For this edition of “What’s new in Swift,” we invited a developer to share their experience:

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