Fantastic Swift tools and where to find them
summary
A tiny Swift library computes Markdown reading time and becomes a mono‑repo with a reusable reading-time CLI executable, built for macOS, Ubuntu and Windows using Swift ArgumentParser and Swift‑Markdown; cross‑compilation uses swift‑linux toolchains (fpm/linux‑cross helper) and needs compiler directives to work around missing APIs; an AWS Lambda uses swift‑aws‑lambda‑runtime, a Vapor+Plot site serves a web playground, and a WebAssembly build via SwiftWASM + JavaScriptKit + carton runs in the browser — most builds succeed though Windows and Linux need extra hacks.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
- 2:25Why use Swift beyond iOS
- 4:30Creating a simple Swift script
- 7:16Improving the script with a Swift package
- 10:26Cross-platform compilation for Linux
- 13:35Compiling for Windows with GitHub Actions
- 17:53WebAssembly and JavaScript integration
- 20:38Building an AWS Lambda API
- 24:08Creating an online playground with Vapor
- 34:39Recap and summary of tools
- 35:44Q&A and closing remarks
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