We dissect Michael Ilseman's recent document with potential optimizations and improvements to String in preparation for ABI stability.

43: State of String

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92: Deinit

Three years after first discussing concurrency in Swift with Chris Lattner, we dive into the latest round of proposals and forum discussions — although this time it is actually happening.

91: Concurrency, 3 years later

Today we talk about the latest Swift open source project, Swift Atomics. The library you shouldn't use but want to anyway.

90: Swift Atomics

Today we welcome special guest, Jordan Rose to discuss implementing the Swift runtime in Swift.

89: Implementing the Swift Runtime in Swift, with Jordan Rose

Swift 5.3 will be released very soon. What should we expect?

43: State of String

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