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About Swift— Swift is a general-purpose programming language that’s approachable for newcomer...
Code of Conduct— To be a truly great community, Swift.org needs to welcome developers from all wa...
Community— Swift is developed in the open by a global community of developers, working toge...
How we work—
Contributing— Everyone is welcome to contribute to Swift. Contributing doesn’t just mean submi...
Diversity in Swift— **Diversity in Swift** is an effort focused on further elevating diverse voices ...
Documentation— If you are new to Swift, you may want to check out these additional resources.
API Design Guidelines—
Setting up Cursor for Swift Development— [Cursor](https://cursor.com/home) is a popular AI-native editor. It offers [codi...
Configuring VS Code for Swift Development— [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) (VS Code) is a popular gene...
Getting Started with the Static Linux SDK— It’s well known that Swift can be used to build software for Apple platforms suc...
Getting Started with the Swift SDK for Android— Since it was first open-sourced in 2015, Swift has grown from a language focused...
Value And Reference Types In Swift— Types in Swift are grouped in two categories: *value types* and *reference types...
Getting Started with Swift SDKs for WebAssembly— [WebAssembly (Wasm) is a virtual instruction set](https://webassembly.org/) focu...
Wrapping C/C++ Library in Swift— There are many great libraries out there that are written in C/C++. It is possib...
Configuring Emacs for Swift Development— Emacs is a highly customizable text editor that has its origins in a macro packa...
Configuring Neovim for Swift Development— [Neovim](https://neovim.io/) is a modern reimplementation of *Vim*, a popular te...
Swift Continuous Integration— The Swift project follows an [incremental development model](/docs/swift-org/con...
Swift Core Libraries— The Swift Core Libraries project provides higher-level functionality than the Sw...
Mixing Swift and C++— - [Introduction](#introduction) - [Overview](#overview) [Enabling C++ Interopera...
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REPL and Debugger— The Swift.org community makes use of the [LLDB debugger](https://github.com/swif...
Monthly Non-Darwin Swift Releases— The release manager will announce the merge window for each monthly release. Thi...
Swift on Server— [Swift](https://www.swift.org/) is a general-purpose programming language built ...
Allocations— In server-side Swift applications, memory allocations are fundamental for variou...
Build System— The recommended way to build server applications is with [Swift Package Manager]...
Deploying to Servers or Public Cloud— The following guides can help with the deployment to public cloud providers:
Moved to https://swift.org/migration/documentation/swift-6-concurrency-migration-guide/enabledataracesafety/— This page has moved. The current location is https://swift.org/migration/documen...
Log Levels— This guide serves as guidelines for library authors with regard to what [SwiftLo...
LLVM TSAN / ASAN— For multithreaded and low-level unsafe interfacing server code, the ability to u...
Debugging Memory Leaks and Usage— Overview
Packaging Applications for Deployment— Once an application is built for production, it still needs to be packaged befor...
Going passwordless with Passkeys— In this tutorial we will explore Passkeys. To be more specific, we’ll explore ho...
Debugging Performance Issues— This document aims to help you debug performance issues in Swift by identifying ...
Testing— SwiftPM is integrated with [XCTest, Apple’s unit test framework](/docs/xctest/)....
Source Code— The code for the Swift project is divided into several open-source repositories,...
Swift Source Compatibility— Source compatibility is a strong goal for future Swift releases. To aid in this ...
Standard Library— The Swift standard library defines a base layer of functionality for writing Swi...
Swift Compiler— The [main Swift repository](https://github.com/swiftlang/swift) contains the sou...
Language reference— If you are new to Swift, you may want to check out these additional resources.
Getting Started— To kickstart your journey, [install Swift](/docs/swift-org/install/) to begin us...
Build a Command-line Tool— The source code for this guide can be found [on GitHub](https://github.com/apple...
Build a library— The source code for this guide can be found [on GitHub](https://github.com/apple...
Build an iOS app with SwiftUI— The source code for this guide can be found [on GitHub](https://github.com/0xTim...
Build a Web Service with Vapor— The source code for this guide can be found [on GitHub](https://github.com/vapor...
Install Swift— Install Swift
Install Swift - Linux— Install Swift
Install Swift - macOS— Install Swift
Install Swift - Windows— Install Swift
Swift Mentorship Program— The Swift Mentorship Program is designed to encourage developers to actively par...
Swift.org API Documentation— The Swift.org website provides HTTP APIs that vends information about toolchain ...
Packages— The Swift package ecosystem has thousands of packages to help you with all kinds...
Platform Support— Swift can be used on different platforms. The information below documents the cu...
Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG)— The Swift Server workgroup is a steering team that promotes the use of Swift for...
SSWG Incubation Process— As described on [the server page](/docs/swift-org/documentation/server/), the go...
Swift.org security— For the protection of our community, Swift.org doesn’t disclose, discuss, or con...