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The text 'hello' drawn three ways, a vector outline laid over unhinted and hinted rasterizations. In some places, the hinted pixels fall entirely outside of the outline's bounds, resulting in output that is more faithful to the font's design at the chosen point size. The text 'hello' drawn three ways, a vector outline laid over unhinted and hinted rasterizations. In some places, the hinted pixels fall entirely outside of the outline's bounds, resulting in output that is more faithful to the font's design at the chosen point size. 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. Read more

  • Language

    Swift 6.3 Released

    Swift is designed to be the language you reach for at every layer of the software stack. Whether you’re building embedded firmware, internet-scale services, or full-featured mobile apps, Swift delivers strong safety guarantees, performance control when you need it, and expressive language features and APIs.

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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: June 2026 Edition

    Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community.

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