The hottest Substack posts of Speaking in Swift by The Browser Company

And their main takeaways
4 HN points 07 Mar 24
  1. Swift development on Windows is productive and ready for industry use, with a mature environment for writing code and continuous improvements to the developer experience.
  2. Visual Studio Code is the preferred development environment, offering essential features like building, debugging, auto-complete, error reporting, and more for Swift programming on Windows.
  3. Swift developers on Windows have access to a range of tools like SPM, CMake, LLDB, and Windows-specific debugging tools like WinDbg and Windows Performance Analyzer for efficient building, testing, and debugging of Swift code.
37 HN points 20 Sep 23
  1. Swift's focus on native interoperability with other languages allows for flexibility in building rich, native experiences across various environments.
  2. Swift uses clang to directly translate between languages, avoiding runtime performance costs, enabling easy integration with existing C libraries.
  3. On Windows, Swift's interoperability features provide access to a wide range of system APIs, including COM, C++, and modules, opening up opportunities for cross-platform development.
13 implied HN points 08 Nov 23
  1. UI testing is essential for reliable graphical applications, catching high-level issues and ensuring robust functionality.
  2. Various UI automation technologies exist, such as Microsoft's UI Automation and Selenium/WebDriver for web applications.
  3. swift-webdriver is an open-source UI automation library for Swift applications on Windows, offering features for testing app interactions.
5 HN points 30 Oct 23
  1. Swift can now be used to build modern Windows applications through the Swift/WinRT open source project
  2. Windows UI framework WinUI 3, built on WinRT, is a suitable choice for Swift developers building Windows apps
  3. The process of projecting WinRT features into Swift involves code generation to create idiomatic Swift APIs