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🐦 Swift.org Now With A Community Package Index

Tom Smykowski
3 min readNov 5, 2023

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The new packages page promotes valuable packages. It should help promote Swift to new developers

Swift.org is the official website of the Swift programming language. The language initially created by Chris Lattner in 2010 is mainly used to write apps for iPhones and other Apple devices.

It’s open source character and unique approach paved it’s way to solid 5% of pro developers according to StackOverflow 2023 survey.

The original Swift website didn’t really sell what Swift is.

Swift.org in January 2023

However, that changed lately with improvements to the page. The main page got a revamp during this year emphasizing on Swift strong sides and showcasing the code:

let hello = "Hello, world!"
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Tom Smykowski
Tom Smykowski

Written by Tom Smykowski

🚀 Senior/Lead Frontend Engineer | Angular · Vue.js · React | Design Systems, UI/UX | Looking for a new project! 📩 contact@tomasz-smykowski.com

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