It has been a long time coming, but Swift finally has an official landing page I can actually recommend to people curious to learn more about the language.
The recent case study about Apple's password monitoring service migrating to Swift is also fantastic. I've been begging the Apple folks since forever to release these kinds of numbers showing off Swift in their large-scale deployments, so I'm really, really thrilled about the direction the website is heading. We're making a much more persuasive pitch for Swift.
So huge thanks and congratulations to everyone involved!
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P.S. I think we should mention that Apple's Secure Enclave processors run software written in Embedded Swift, as was announced at WWDC last year. Apple shipped 225 million iPhones (just iPhones) in 2024, so that's a very large deployment by any industry's standards.
I have some friends in the defence industry, and like any embedded developers they have big C++ codebases and struggle with the usual C++ challenges. They are considering options for a long-term successor language, of course considered Rust, and have the usual Rust challenges (steep learning curve, 'fighting the borrow checker'). Swift could be a great fit, and for those who don't already watch WWDC talks, hearing about Apple's large-scale deployment of Swift in critical security processors for millions of customers would be very compelling IMO.
P.P.S. Also, I think we should make the links to the forums more prominent, and possibly add a link to the forums at the top. Basically, if anybody has questions, we should encourage them to come here as their first place to ask.