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It’s easy to miss if you’re not paying close attention, but Apple is doing lots of open-source work these days.

The most obvious example this week was the open-source release of the DocC version of The Swift Programming Language book. 🚀

It makes perfect sense, of course. An open-source programming language should have open-source documentation. However, given that the book initially appeared as closed-source, I’d imagine getting the momentum together to make this happen didn’t come easily.

But it’s not just that. There are libraries, too. Lots of libraries, with new ones arriving all the time. Like this week’s release of swift-nio-imap. Lots of this library work focuses on server-side Swift, but not all of it. There are also packages like swift-argument-parser and swift-collections, and tools like DocC and swift-format.

Finally, there’s plenty of work going on with the organisation of open-source effort through the workgroups. This all started with the Swift Server workgroup, but recently expanded to new ones like the Language workgroup, Documentation workgroup, and the Website workgroup that works on the also recently open-sourced website.

I have speculated before that it might make sense for Apple to create something that uses server-side Swift, maybe an “iCloud functions” type product? However, the longer it goes, the less sure I am that’s the plan. Instead, perhaps the plan is already well in progress, building an open-source foundation for server-side Swift that community frameworks like Vapor can build on, or services like AWS Lambda can leverage.

Whatever the reasons, it seems like Apple and the Swift team are committed to working in the open with more than just the language and tooling, and I like that. 👍

Dave Verwer  

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