The Swift 4.1 compiler brings the next phase of improvements from the roadmap for generics: conditional conformances. This post will look at how this much-anticipated feature has been adopted in Swift’s standard library, and how it affects you and your code. Equatable Containers The most noticeable benefit of conditional conformance is the ability for types that store other types, like Array or Op

Apple’s Swift Team is happy to announce that Swift’s benchmark suite is now open source. The suite contains source code for benchmarks, libraries, and utilities designed to help track Swift performance and catch performance regressions before they are committed, including: 75 benchmarks covering a number of important Swift workloads Libraries providing commonly needed benchmarking functions A driv

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Swift is a general-purpose programming language that’s approachable for newcomers and powerful for experts. It is fast, modern, safe, and a joy to write. struct Binomial: Codable { var genus: String var species: String var subspecies: String? } let tree = Binomial(genus: "Pin", species: "oak") let jsonData = try JSONEncoder().encode(tree) // {"genus":"Pin","species":"oak"} struct ScientificName {