Fahad Nayyar @faint_variable

Goals for #swift in 2025 published! Better concurrency, low level performance tools and java interop 🎉 Exciting stuff, lots of goodies coming to server side swift development through these :-) forums.swift.org/t/swift-langua…

These recent notes on Swift by @XazaxHun suggest that C++ needs more coverage to interop with memory-safe languages. Every attempt to improve interop is scrambling to extend C++ with lifetime information. Everyone is converging on similar requirements. forums.swift.org/t/safe-and-eff…

We've been evaluating a number of C++ successor languages for @ladybirdbrowser, and the one best suited to our needs appears to be @SwiftLang 🪶 Over the last few months, I've asked a bunch of folks to pick some little part of our project and try rewriting it in the different languages we were evaluating. The feedback was very clear: everyone preferred Swift! Why do we like Swift? First off, Swift has both memory & data race safety (as of v6). It's also a modern language with solid ergonomics. Something that matters to us a lot is OO. Web specs & browser internals tend to be highly object-oriented, and life is easier when you can model specs closely in your code. Swift has first-class OO support, in many ways even nicer than C++. The Swift team is also investing heavily in C++ interop, which means there's a real path to incremental adoption, not just gigantic rewrites. Strong ties to Apple? Swift has historically been strongly tied to Apple and their platforms, but in the last year, there's been a push for "swiftlang" to become more independent. (It's now in a separate GitHub org, no longer in "apple", for example). Support for non-Apple platforms is also improving, as is the support for other, LSP-based development environments. What happens next? We aren't able to start using it just yet, as the current release of Swift ships with a version of Clang that's too old to grok our existing C++ codebase. But when Swift 6 comes out of beta this fall, we will begin using it! No language is perfect, and there are a lot of things here that we don't know yet. I'm not aware of anyone doing browser engine stuff in Swift before, so we'll probably end up with feedback for the Swift team as well. I'm super excited about this! We must steer Ladybird towards memory safety, and the first step is selecting a successor language that we can begin adopting very soon. 🤓🐞

iOS 26 / macOS 26 brings two-way interop between Java and Swift 😯 This could transform how we code-share in React Native native modules. @expo did you catch this

Now you can use your Mac for developing Linux-based server components with Swift, using the new Swift-based container tools. Learn more and download at: github.com/apple/container

New way to launch and manage containers on macOS, and yeap, it’s oss and entirely written in Swift! github.com/apple/container #swiftlang developer.apple.com/videos/play/ww…

Watch my WWDC session to learn how to easily adopt Swift concurrency in your app with new Swift 6.2 features🤩 #WWDC25 developer.apple.com/videos/play/ww…

Swift already has *awesome* interop with C and even C++ but… have you heard about the new Java interoperability using the latest foreign memory #java APIs!? As usual, pushing boundaries and making your user experience great whilst at it :-) #swiftlang youtu.be/QSHO-GUGidA?si…

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This talk may be the highlight of this year's wwdc if you're interested in profiling and high performance code on apple platforms: developer.apple.com/videos/play/ww… It shows a new cpu profiler that collects *all* events, and gives exact traces, some hints about cpu counters too.

Here's what I've been cooking at Apple: Check out our open-source container project on GitHub! 🍎🚀 github.com/apple/container Learn more at WWDC 2025: developer.apple.com/videos/play/ww… #Apple #OpenSource #WWDC25"

You and I are not the same. Your Saturday is filled with Tik Tok junk. Mine is filled with 65” living room OLED TV @ktosopl with swift and java interop.

Introducing the seamless Java/Swift interop effort! Offering both: - generated Swift macro based JNI wrappers - Project Panama based Swift accessors generated with a jextract-swift tool for high performance use-cases Early prototype is open source and we’ll share more about our plans and invite folks to collaborate early next week! github.com/swiftlang/swif… #ServerSideSwift2024

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C++ language support in Xcode and Apple Platforms: developer.apple.com/xcode/cpp/ developer.apple.com/xcode/cpp/#lib…

@awwmishaaa You need to start walking!

@aastha985 Thanks for making London prettier!

I am delighted to share that I will be presenting my first-author paper titled: "Is it Even Giving the Correct Reading or Not?": How Trust and Relationships Mediate Blood Pressure Management in India at CHI 2024- Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, on 16th May.🌴🌊 I conducted this research as part of my tenure as a Research Fellow at @MSFTResearch India, in collaboration with my colleagues from both Microsoft Research India and Microsoft Research Redmond. Looking forward to exchanging ideas with the #CHI2024 community! 💡 #HCI #healthcare

An observation: Indians/Asians say: I was *brought up* in Mumbai Americans say: I *grew up* in New York A subtle but fascinating example of collectivist ("my parents brought me up") versus individualistic ("I grew up myself and my parents supported me") cultures!

Honoured to be awarded the 2024 Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Fellowship ✨ All because of my advisors @xiangrenNLP and @swabhz for their encouragement and upliftment throughout, and @nlp_usc for being such an amazing place to do research and life! 🏝 machinelearning.apple.com/updates/apple-…

@awwmishaaa Yess !! 😎😍

Book of the Day: C++ Concurrency in Action by Anthony Williams meetingcpp.com/mcpp/books/boo… #cplusplus #cpp