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Swift language development and Apple-platform work with SwiftUI and related frameworks.

3,371 stories · 45 in 30 days · Updated Sep 28, 2026

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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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Year by yearUp to 5 stories per year
2026438 stories
Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin↗ shopify.engineering · HN · 957 comments · 1275 points · Sep 10, 2026
Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode↗ scottwillsey.com · HN · 232 comments · 555 points · Jul 13, 2026
Swift 6.3↗ swift.org · HN · 230 comments · 340 points · Mar 26, 2026
Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption↗ github.com · HN · 315 comments · 328 points · Feb 18, 2026
Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible↗ docs.swifdroid.com · HN · 234 comments · 293 points · Jan 03, 2026
2025478 stories
The Swift SDK for Android↗ swift.org · HN · 280 comments · 696 points · Oct 24, 2025
Apps SDK↗ developers.openai.com · HN · 382 comments · 468 points · Oct 06, 2025
Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode↗ developer.apple.com · HN · 400 comments · 489 points · Aug 29, 2025
Sidekick: Local-first native macOS LLM app↗ github.com · HN · 92 comments · 325 points · Mar 09, 2025
Apple is open sourcing Swift Build↗ swift.org · HN · 283 comments · 612 points · Feb 01, 2025
2024453 stories
Swift 6↗ swift.org · HN · 354 comments · 397 points · Sep 17, 2024
Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a single Swift codebase↗ skip.tools · HN · 118 comments · 322 points · Aug 28, 2024
Swift Static Linux SDK↗ swift.org · HN · 262 comments · 339 points · Jun 11, 2024
Writing Gnome Apps with Swift↗ swift.org · HN · 282 comments · 552 points · Mar 27, 2024
Apple hiring compiler developers for improving Swift / C++ interoperability↗ jobs.apple.com · HN · 241 comments · 214 points · Jan 13, 2024
2023446 stories
OCaml as the Universal Translator – DkSDK Merry Christmas 2023↗ gitlab.com · HN · 7 comments · 66 points · Dec 23, 2023
100 Days of Swift – Hacking with Swift↗ hackingwithswift.com · HN · 2 comments · 18 points · Jun 16, 2023
SwiftData↗ developer.apple.com · HN · 18 comments · 40 points · Jun 06, 2023
Why is Swift so slow (timeout) in compiling this code?↗ forums.swift.org · HN · 18 comments · 44 points · May 30, 2023
VSCode Swift 1.0↗ forums.swift.org · HN · 7 comments · 30 points · Jan 21, 2023
2022348 stories
Xcode 14 unintentionally increases app size↗ emergetools.com · HN · 119 comments · 250 points · Nov 10, 2022
Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS↗ shrugs.app · HN · 226 comments · 300 points · Jun 29, 2022
SwiftUI in 2022↗ mjtsai.com · HN · 204 comments · 306 points · May 25, 2022
Show HN: Appwrite – Open-Source and Self Hosted Firebase Alternative↗ github.com · HN · 118 comments · 326 points · Mar 22, 2022
Chris Lattner left Swift core team↗ forums.swift.org · HN · 487 comments · 559 points · Feb 21, 2022
2021407 stories
Swift Playgrounds 4↗ apple.com · HN · 95 comments · 256 points · Dec 15, 2021
Pharo 9↗ pharo.org · HN · 226 comments · 328 points · Jul 15, 2021
Show HN: I wrote the book Building Mobile Apps at Scale↗ mobileatscale.com · HN · 50 comments · 357 points · May 05, 2021
SvelteKit Is in Public Beta↗ svelte.dev · HN · 114 comments · 315 points · Mar 23, 2021
CS193p: Developing Apps for iOS↗ cs193p.sites.stanford.edu · HN · 165 comments · 700 points · Feb 10, 2021
2020801 stories
Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App↗ sketch.com · HN · 345 comments · 368 points · Oct 27, 2020
Swift on Windows↗ swift.org · HN · 203 comments · 325 points · Sep 22, 2020
Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming↗ tryolabs.com · HN · 539 comments · 675 points · Apr 09, 2020
Swift on Mac OS 9↗ belkadan.com · HN · 44 comments · 272 points · Apr 01, 2020
Swift Playgrounds for macOS↗ apps.apple.com · HN · 228 comments · 434 points · Feb 11, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin↗ shopify.engineering · HN · 957 comments · 1275 points · Sep 10, 2026
Swift 6.4 Released↗ swift.org · HN · 63 comments · 128 points · Sep 15, 2026
SwiftUI After 7 Years↗ ykvm.com · HN · 334 comments · 279 points · Aug 02, 2026
SwiftTUI↗ swifttui.sh · HN · 0 comments · 23 points · Sep 04, 2026
Cursor Introducing Projects↗ cursor.com · HN · 0 comments · 5 points · Sep 23, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin↗ shopify.engineering · HN · 957 comments · 1275 points · Sep 10, 2026
Swift 6.4 Released↗ swift.org · HN · 63 comments · 128 points · Sep 15, 2026
SwiftTUI↗ swifttui.sh · HN · 0 comments · 23 points · Sep 04, 2026
Cursor Introducing Projects↗ cursor.com · HN · 0 comments · 5 points · Sep 23, 2026
A New Observable↗ observablehq.com · HN · 0 comments · 5 points · Sep 02, 2026
A New Observable↗ new.observablehq.com · HN · 0 comments · 4 points · Sep 09, 2026
Lessons from shipping a watch-only Apple Watch app, built with Claude↗ silentbell.app · HN · 1 comments · 4 points · Sep 02, 2026
Show HN: NSLibrary – a self-hosted library for your Switch games and homebrew↗ github.com · HN · 0 comments · 3 points · Sep 19, 2026
Why I Built my own Language App↗ maximepeabody.substack.com · HN · 2 comments · 3 points · Sep 17, 2026
A New Observable↗ observablehq.com · HN · 0 comments · 3 points · Sep 02, 2026

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