Readit Newstimsneath commented on Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/thm
It's cool but also not as revolutionary as you make it sound. You can already install Podman, Orbstack or Colima right? Not sure which open-source framework they are using, but to me it seems like an OS-level integration of one of these tools. That's definitely a big win and will make things easier for developers, but I'm not sure if it's a gamechanger.
The framework that container uses is built in Swift and also open sourced today, along with the CLI tool itself: https://github.com/apple/containerization
What about a formatter? I recall having to figure out which library to install as binary just to do formatting. What do you do?
That's built in now -- the default VSCode "Format Document" / "Format Selection" commands work with just the Swift extension installed.
I would love to try Swift for things other than iOS if it had nice development tools. I don't ask for much. A decent LSP and code formatter are all I want. I refuse to use Xcode, so being able to code Swift in my code editor of preference would be great.
I wish using Swift for development outside Apple world would be feasible.
Very feasible. From embedded (https://www.swift.org/blog/embedded-swift-examples/) to Linux apps (https://www.swift.org/blog/adwaita-swift/) to tiny games (https://www.swift.org/blog/byte-sized-swift-tiny-games-playd...) to ML (https://www.swift.org/blog/mlx-swift/) to Windows (https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-everywhere-windows-interop/) to Private Cloud Compute (https://github.com/apple/security-pcc)...
timsneath commented on Apple is open sourcing Swift Build swift.org/blog/the-next-c... · Posted by u/dayanruben
And until packages are actually shipped for all mainstream distros, the stigma is completely accurate.
No, neither "just install a tarball" nor "just install this docker image" count.
Working on it:
https://github.com/swiftlang/swiftly?tab=readme-ov-file
timsneath commented on Apple is open sourcing Swift Build swift.org/blog/the-next-c... · Posted by u/dayanruben
Is Swift actually serious about embedded?
Of course! Tons of examples here:
https://github.com/apple/swift-embedded-examples
At WWDC24, we shared a session on embedded Swift, which is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqxbsADqDI4
More documentation on embedded Swift tooling here: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/blob/main/docs/EmbeddedSw...
(Disclosure: I work at Apple.)
timsneath commented on Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video] youtube.com/watch?v=-qisI... · Posted by u/rayhaanj
It used to be that Hacker News was a place for the inventors, the technologists, and the futurists. What happened to our optimism and excitement for firsts?
Airfares have dropped precipitously over the last fifty years: https://simpleflying.com/50-years-airfares/, and it's quite possible that the trend will continue.
Conversely, the speed of commercial flight has barely changed over that time (with the exception of longer flights reducing stops). Boom is innovating in this area and bringing supersonic flight within reach again -- I for one think that's something to be celebrated.
- How do I enforce that inbound API requests come only from trusted sources?
- How do I enforce fine-grained access to user records?
- How do I enforce a set of naming conventions for a data update?
Many such policies may come from regulatory requirements, may be regional in nature, and may change in otherwise stable codebases. And it's even harder when you're applying this to a highly-scalable production internet service. As a result, defining policy at an organizational level with auditing is a challenge for large enterprises. OPA helps enterprises administer and enforce policies.
More details on what OPA does here: https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/philosophy
And you can see some examples of Rego (the policy language) here: https://play.openpolicyagent.org