Latest Swift News
Adopters
Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType Hinting Interpreter
We rewrote Apple's TrueType hinting interpreter from C to memory-safe Swift for the Fall 2025 releases. Beyond memory safety, the new implementation runs 13% faster than the C interpreter it replaced.
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Language
Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.4
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 Swift produces significantly smaller binaries than regular Swift. While a subset of the full language, the vast majority of the Swift language works exactly the same in Embedded Swift. Additional information is described in the Embedded Swift vision document.
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Developer Tools
Expanding Swift's IDE Support
You can now write Swift in a broader range of popular IDEs, including Cursor, VSCodium, AWS’s Kiro, and Google’s Antigravity. By leveraging VS Code extension compatibility, these editors tap directly into the Open VSX Registry, where the official Swift extension is now live.
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Community
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 Swift.
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Digest
What's new in Swift: July 2026 Edition
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community.