Performance oriented Python-like language is now available on Mac platform. Primary use case for Mojo is ML/AI developments, but it could be used as a substitute for Python in other areas too.
Toolchain could be installed using Homebrew.
Modular Blog: Mojo🔥 is now available on Mac
GitHub: mojo
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Apple launches Tap to Pay in Brazil with CloudWalk’s InfinitePay integration.
Based on a report from last year, almost 40% of transactions in Brazil during the third quarter of 2022 were made through contactless payments. The country has a high rate of NFC-enabled POS (point-of-sale) terminals.
9to5Mac
Reference: Apple officially launches Tap to Pay in Brazil as international expansion continues
New version of Swift OpenAPI Generator package is released. This update has many new features, but most importantly, it lowers OS version requirements:
Also, OpenAPI 3.1 is now supported.
GitHub: swift-openapi-generator
Swift Forums: Swift OpenAPI Generator 0.2.0 Released (OpenAPI 3.1, multiple content types)
Apple brings Tap to Pay framework to Netherlands with Adyen and SumUp as first payment platforms supporting the framework. Other companies are expected to follow.
Other parties will also follow at a later date, including Rabobank, Klearly, Revolut, Stripe and myPOS.
9to5Mac
Apple Developer: Tap to Pay on iPhone
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InstallAware provides tools for developers and users to simplify using Apple's Game Porting Toolkit. Installer provides simple way to install required dependencies and components.
GitHub: AGPT
Reference: Apple Game Porting Toolkit is easier to set up using a new installer
Hugging Face releases Swift Transformers – package to implement transformers APIs in Swift.
Overall, couple of products were released and updated:
swift-transformers, an in-development Swift package to implement a transformers-like API in Swift focused on text generation. It is an evolution of swift-coreml-transformers with broader goals: Hub integration, arbitrary tokenizer support, and pluggable models.swift-chat, a simple app demonstrating how to use the package.exporters, a Core ML conversion package for transformers models.transformers-to-coreml, a no-code Core ML conversion tool built on exporters.Package currently supports following models:
As of now package is in active development. It is not expected to be used in production projects without appropriate testing.
GitHub:
Hugging Face: Releasing Swift Transformers: Run On-Device LLMs in Apple Devices
Swift Server workgroup (SSWG) publishes annual update highlighting 2022 accomplishments and 2023 plans.
Workgroup highlights ecosystem growth with new libraries, migration to Swift modern concurrency model, new tools for server-side development.
2023 goals are set as follows:
Swift Blog: SSWG 2023 Annual Update
WebKit team shared blog post reminding web developers to adopt Storage API to be able to use local browser storage properly with modern updates to Safari on all platforms.
Team also outlines storage quotas for applications.
The overall quota is the storage limit of all origins. Reaching the limit can lead to data eviction, which releases storage used by the app. Starting in iOS 17 and macOS 14:
WebKit
- For a browser app or a web app, overall quota is up to 80% of the total disk space.
- For other apps, overall quota is up to 15% of the total disk space.
WHATWG: Storage API
WebKit Blog: Updates to Storage Policy
Apple recently announced that in-app billing issues will now be handled with system-provided dialogs. Starting August 14 these dialogs will be shown to users experiencing issues with in-app subscriptions.
Starting August 14, 2023, if an auto-renewable subscription doesn’t renew because of a billing issue, a system-provided sheet will appear in your app with a prompt that lets customers update the payment method for their Apple ID. You can test this sheet in Sandbox, as well as delay or suppress it using messages and display in StoreKit. This feature is available in iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4 or later, and no action is required to adopt it.
Apple Developer
Developers could use API to show additional information directly in the app.
Apple Developer:
Point-Free Pointers finally releases Composable Architecture 1.0.
TCA 0.57.0 is also released to help with migration – it deprecates all components removed in 1.0 to allow simple migration.
Documentation is updated accordingly.
GitHub: swift-composable-architecture
The Composable Architecture Tutorials: Meet the Composable Architecture
Point-Free Pointers: Composable Architecture 1.0