Byte-Sized Swift: Building Tiny Games for the Playdate

• swift-playdate

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  Swift package for building Playdate games & apps.

Ah cool. I messed around with this a while ago: https://github.com/ericlewis/swift-playdate

• swift-evolution

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  This maintains proposals for changes and user-visible enhancements to the Swift Programming Language.

  

[A Vision for Embedded Swift](https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/visions/e...) has the details on this new build mode and is quite interesting.

> Effectively, there will be two bottom layers of Swift, and the lower one, “non-allocating” Embedded Swift, will necessarily be a more restricted compilation mode (e.g. classes will be disallowed as they fundamentally require heap allocations) and likely to be used only in very specialized use cases. “Allocating” Embedded Swift should allow classes and other language facilities that rely on the heap (e.g. indirect enums).

Also, this seems to maybe hint at the Swift runtime eventually being reimplemented in non-allocating Embedded Swift rather than the C++ (?) that it uses now:

> The Swift runtime APIs will be provided as an implementation that’s optimized for small codesize and will be available as a static library in the toolchain for common CPU architectures. Interestingly, it’s possible to write that implementation in “non-allocating” Baremetal Swift.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• plb2

  7 242 9.4 C

  A programming language benchmark

https://github.com/attractivechaos/plb2 - limited but broad comparison across a large number of languages. Swift and Nim both compare favourably to C.

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