Author: Mark Brownsword

I've been working as an enterprise developer for more than 15 years, always using .NET platform and recently building for iOS with Swift. My degree is in Business Studies, majoring in information systems, where I learnt the fundamentals of software engineering for building systems for business.

Swift on Linux/Technical

Swift on Linux: Package Manager Resources

May 29, 2020 Mark Brownsword

A new feature for Swift 5.3 is Package Manager Resources which allows files such as .md, .png, .jpg, .txt and…

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Insights/Swift on Linux

Swift on Linux: What Kind of Applications Will I build?

May 11, 2020May 26, 2020 Mark Brownsword

The iOS Developer Community Survey has a section which asks respondents to rate their current adoption of Swift for building…

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Swift on Linux/Technical

Swift on Linux: SPM

May 3, 2020May 4, 2020 Mark Brownsword

The Swift Package Manager (SPM) is a tool for creating Swift applications and managing their dependencies. SPM supports Executable and…

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Swift on Linux/Technical

Swift on Linux: REPL

April 26, 2020 Mark Brownsword

Swift provides an interactive Read Eval Print Loop (REPL), which is accessed by typing swift at the command prompt. $…

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Swift on Linux/Technical

Swift on Linux: Getting Started

April 25, 2020May 9, 2020 Mark Brownsword 1 Comment

Swift currently officially supports running on Ubuntu (16.04, 18.04, 20.04) and Red Hat derivatives (currently CentOS 8 and Amazon Linux…

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