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Speaking in Swift by The Browser Company
Company blog · speakinginswift.substack.comprogramming
Speaking in Swift by The Browser Company is the company blog at speakinginswift.substack.com, writing about programming. Since 2023, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Swift, Meet WinRT”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Browser Company blog for posts on building Swift tooling and interop for Windows, such as calling WinRT from Swift, in the context of the Arc browser's Windows app.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sharing our technical learnings as we build Arc on Windows - in Swift.
Most-linked posts?
- Swift, Meet WinRT6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-10-30
- Swift Tooling: Windows Edition6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-03-07
- Swift on Windows: A Year of Refinement3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-07-29
- Interoperability: Swift’s Super Power2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-20
What Hacker News says?
I mean this year we did have the porting of Arc browser to windows. I use it my gaming PC and it is starting to feel like it has a similar level of polish to the MacOS version. https://speakinginswift.substack.com/p/swift-meet-winrt https://speakinginswift.substack.com/p/swift-tooling-windows... Now that’s not an engine but the UI.
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on “Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine”Submitted Swift Tooling: Windows Edition as a story · 166 points
HN discussionThere's https://speakinginswift.substack.com/p/swift-meet-winrt
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on “Embedded Swift on the Raspberry Pi Pico”Submitted Swift Tooling: Windows Edition as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt’s not SwiftUI (which would require Apple’s AppKit or UIKit), but rather interop with the Windows native WinRT https://speakinginswift.substack.com/p/swift-meet-winrt
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on “Swift Tooling: Windows Edition”Submitted Swift on Windows: A Year of Refinement as a story · 2 points
HN discussionArc, TBCNY's browser for macOS and Windows uses Swift [1] [2]. Their newer Dia browser which is meant to be cross-platform also uses Swift. [1]: https://speakinginswift.substack.com/p/swift-tooling-windows... [2]: "How we're building the Arc Browser Windows app with Swift " -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa_fNuaSE_I
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on “Swift is a more convenient Rust”Submitted Swift on Windows: A Year of Refinement as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI agree here, and I think Icaza is just motivated to make something for himself, because as he explained in the talk, he loves Apple products and APIs. Swift cross-platform would be a great thing.. I see that The Browser Company is using it for their browser project [0]. It's got a good mix of speed and ergonomics, and Apple seems hell bent on using swift for everything, even at the kernel level (I can't look up sou…
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on “Murder is a pixel art ECS game engine in C#”Submitted Swift Tooling: Windows Edition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift, Meet WinRT as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift on Windows: A Year of Refinement as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift Tooling: Windows Edition as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift, meet WinRT as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift, Meet WinRT as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift, Meet WinRT as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interoperability: Swift’s Super Power as a story · 1 points
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