Moving “The Swift Programming Language” Book to Open Source

Apple does this with their developer videos as well. Very few videos from before WWDC2015 are available (some from 2014 are, but not all of theme). I think they might still be on the server if you have the right URL, but otherwise they are inaccessible. It’s a shame because a lot of the information is still valid, even if the example code is in Obj-C. For example Apple demoed how to implement very cool, very custom CollectionView and UIKit Dynamics behaviors in some of those older videos and now it’s just gone.

Edit: And they no longer update their documentation archive. At least it’s still available, there are a lot of very in-depth programming guides in there with information that is still 100% valid but not available on the normal documentation website.

That's strange because my Books app still shows Swift 5.6. Are you on a beta version of macOS?

> but not a world shattering event.

I don’t think anyone involved in the process would claim that it is. But as you alluded to, it’s still positive. And the type of news which fits well on HN.

Swift being open source makes sense that the book is too. Hopefully more and better examples will be added.

Calibre will convert it to PDF for you. Might be overkill.