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Swift Influencer Digest

Date: 2026-06-07

Fetched from: @pointfreeco, @twostraws, @JoannisOrlandos

Point-Free (@pointfreeco)

  • Swift 6.2 introduced a vision for “approachable concurrency.” This includes two new features that make working with async code much easier: nonisolated-nonsending, and actor-isolated conformances. Let’s explore each topic and see how they improve things. pointfree.co/episodes/ep365

  • Apple engineers have done something incredible at this year’s WWDC. Thanks to @​Observable, macros and more, you can write Composable Architecture features in a succinct manner, while enjoying the benefits of value types, effect management, exhaustive testing and more!

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  • Modern Swift has a lot of advanced features, and you don’t need to know them all to be effective with the language, but when you can, the results can be magical.

  • We were surprised and happy to see a bunch of our open source libraries make an appearance in the #WWDC22 Platforms State of the Union

  • After two consecutive days of 5 hour recording sessions on SwiftUI navigation, we met up for the first time since January 2020. We were exhausted, but next week we begin one of our most ambitious series of episodes yet!

Paul Hudson (@twostraws)

  • My new Mac app is out today! It's called Kickstart, and it has just one job: helping indie app developers make more money on the App Store. It is packed with features,many of which are completely free. Get it here: apps.apple.com/app/kickstart-

  • Ask them to solve the following and identify the pattern: - 8 ÷ 8 - 8 ÷ 4 - 8 ÷ 2 - 8 ÷ 1 - 8 ÷ 0.5 - 8 ÷ 0.25 - 8 ÷ 0.125

  • The most “European mind cannot comprehend this” thing around

  • is facing a lot of negative feedback for his new wallpapers app, and it’s mostly fair – extreme pricing, privacy invasion, solid colors for sale, etc. Some folks complained that it’s a rebadged version of an old app, and, uh, Marques is gently correcting them

  • My M1 MacBook Pro arrived today. Chances are you have various questions, but I think a whole lot is summed up in this 50-second video. (Alt text, because Twitter still doesn't make this easy: Xcode 12.3 beta unzips in 5 minutes on an M1, vs 13 minutes 22 seconds on an Intel i9)

  • All checked in and ready to go! #WWDC25

  • An alternative is to break ÷ down into repeated subtraction. - 8 ÷ 8 (how many 8s can you subtract from 8 until you hit 0? 1) - 8 ÷ 2 (subtract 4x 2s) - 8 ÷ 0 (how many times can you subtract zero? Infinite!) I guess the problem is that “undefined” isn’t easy in early maths.

  • So, I tried Vision Pro, and no matter how good you think it is… it's better. Just astonishing immersion backed by mind-boggling audio fidelity, and the UI has been polished and polished until it's almost invisible. Zero friction; I was a confident user in minutes. #WWDC23

  • simctl is a great tool for controlling the iOS simulator, but I find it a little hard to use. So, I wrote Control Room: a SwiftUI macOS that lets you manipulate simulator settings easily. I'd be happy to post the code on GitHub if other folks would find it useful.

  • Normalize saying "I don't know." Normalize saying "I was wrong." Normalize saying "I just learned that." It's not that hard, folks.

Joannis Orlandos (@JoannisOrlandos)

  • I'm pleased to announce nightly preview releases of the Swift SDK for Android!

  • Apple using Vapor for their backend services is a really empowering statement. If Apple and Amazon can use it, it’s ready for production. #ServerSideSwift

  • Our WebSocket library is now also available without using the Hummingbird framework, for client development like a Discord bot, or an Android/iOS app. It's fully structured concurrency based and Autobahn compliant. Huge thanks to

  • It's happening!

  • Eager to announce I'm a founding member of the new Swift Android Workgroup! I've been hard at work bringing people together and working on a VSCode extension to integrate the development flow.

  • Announcing the Swift on Android Working Group, with the goal of establishing and maintaining Android as an officially supported platform for Swift. More here: forums.swift.org/t/announcing-t#Android

  • I really need to highlight this incredibly cool package! It allows you to write NodeJS native modules in Swift, and has an amazing API. It is missing some good docs though, but works like a charm once you get into it.