swift internals

Bits & Side Tables: How Reference Counting Works in Swift

Deep under the hood of Swift's heap objects

Aug 25 •

How to Learn the Swift Source Code

Become an expert at Swift Internals 🛠️

Jul 22 •

Data: a swift-foundation deep-dive

Understand the optimisations powering this fundamental struct

Jun 30 •

The Swift Compiler

Including: WTF is LLVM!?

Dec 24, 2024 •

The Swift Runtime: Your Silent Partner

Fun and games in the Swift source code

Dec 16, 2024 •

Static, Dynamic, Mergeable, oh, my!

A theoretical guide to libraries, frameworks, and linking

Nov 18, 2024 •

Swift Intermediate Language

The Swift compiler's secret sauce

Sep 16, 2024 •

The Meme that gave me Imposter Syndrome

A primer on type attributes in functions

Jul 29, 2024 •

The Swift Method Dispatch Deep Dive

And the compiler's endless quest to speed up your code

Feb 5, 2024 •

The Case Against [unowned self]

Why you shouldn’t ever use this keyword (and when you should)

Jan 8, 2024 •

2 Minute Tips: The Dark Secrets of Bools

Mysteries of the Swift Standard Library

Dec 25, 2023 •

2 Minute Tips: iOS Springboard Paddling Pool

This is not a deep-dive.

Dec 25, 2023 •

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