Swift beyond Apple: Making Software for the Physical World

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Shows Swift running beyond Apple with concrete tooling and deployments: Wendy OS for cross‑compiling and flashing Swift to robots and Raspberry Pi, remote deploy to a robotic arm in San Francisco, and runtime install. Describes server frameworks Vapor and Hummingbird, claims startups handle millions of events/day, and cites Swift Java and Skipped for Android interop with about 30% of Swift packages already building on Android. Mentions embedded use in Touch ID and browser/WebAssembly ports like GoodNotes.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speaker welcome
2. 1:11Why Swift beyond Apple
3. 3:39Cross-platform development challenges
4. 5:28Swift’s strengths for developers
5. 7:12Shared core with Swift
6. 7:32Swift on Android
7. 8:56Swift’s interoperability
8. 12:27Swift on the server
9. 14:49Swift on the web
10. 16:15Swift on Windows
11. 16:58Swift in embedded systems
12. 18:44Swift for robotics
13. 19:24Demo introduction
14. 20:09Remote deployment demo
15. 24:18Future of Swift in robotics
16. 25:05Q&A and closing remarks

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