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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

    Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.4

    Embedded Swift is a subset of Swift that’s designed for low resource usage, making it capable of running on constrained environments like microcontrollers. Using a special compilation mode, Embedded Swift produces significantly smaller binaries than regular Swift. While a subset of the full language, the vast majority of the Swift language works exactly the same in Embedded Swift. Additional information is described in the Embedded Swift vision document.

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  • Developer Tools

    Module Tracking in Swift Debug Info

    When your Swift program hits a breakpoint and stops so you can inspect it, the debugger’s expression evaluator has to find the exact Swift module your code was built from. Until now, that lookup wasn’t always precise. The upcoming Swift 6.4 release will include changes, begun in Swift 6.3, that address this by updating how the Swift compiler references explicitly-built Swift modules in debug info.

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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: August 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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