All the places Swift will go
from Changelog Interviews
This week we're talking about Swift with Ben Cohen, the Swift Team Manager at Apple. We caught up with Ben while at KubeCon last week. Ben takes us into the world of Swift, from Apple Native apps on iOS and macOS, to the Swift Server Workgroup for developing and deploying server side applications, to the Swift extension for VS Code, Swift as a safe C/C++ successor language, Swift on Linux and Windows, and of course what The Browser Company's Arc browser is doing to bring Arc to Windows.
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- 0:00 This week on The Changelog
- 1:11 Sponsor: Statsig
- 4:36 Start the show!
- 7:48 Realizing the vision
- 9:46 Swift as a language
- 14:39 Swift on Windows and Linux
- 20:12 Migrating to Swift
- 22:29 Swift on Windows
- 26:27 Sponsor: Neon
- 31:48 Swift on Android and elsewhere?
- 35:06 Swift vs Rust
- 37:29 ABI stability
- 42:59 Swift and memory management
- 45:16 Swift ergonomics
- 49:58 Swift and The Godot Engine?
- 51:58 Coming up!
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This episode was published on November 16, 2023.
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