As we head into the festive season, I discover myself trying again on 2022. The world nonetheless feels prefer it’s heading within the unsuitable path in so some ways, however as day-to-day life begins to extra carefully resemble pre-pandemic instances, it has been a way more nice 12 months than the final couple.
On this planet of Swift and Apple platform growth, we began this 12 months amongst an avalanche of rumours that I didn’t imagine:
So, my prediction for this 12 months is that this isn’t the 12 months for any AR/VR {hardware} from Apple. Not even a holographic sticker on the again of the iPhone 14. 😂
I’ll take a win on that one! It wasn’t all success, although, as I did suspect we’d see a watch face SDK this 12 months, and that didn’t pan out in any respect. 😬
I prefer to learn again by my introductory feedback on the finish of the 12 months. I don’t notably take pleasure in it, it provides me the identical feeling as listening to audio of myself talking, however I discover it’s useful, and there have been a number of feedback that I felt pleased with as I re-read them.
My ideas on points with App Retailer enterprise fashions and VC funding (and the follow-up) nonetheless really feel related. I used to be additionally pleasantly stunned after I re-read my ideas on AR consumer interfaces and the Swift plugin for VS Code. Lastly, I used to be completely satisfied to focus on the good work on the Parse platform that survived abandonment.
It was additionally an enormous 12 months for the Swift Bundle Index, with our major focus this 12 months being to construct a sturdy package deal documentation system. Over 225 packages have adopted that documentation system, which is fantastic to see, and we’re proud to proceed our work supporting the Swift open-source package deal ecosystem.
I hope you all take a while to look again and rejoice your achievements this 12 months, too. I additionally hope the following few weeks are a time for celebration with household and pals and a break from work.
Lastly, I need to thanks all for persevering with to learn what I’ve to say. This text wouldn’t exist with out you. As common, there can be no publication subsequent week and a “Better of And Lastly…” the week after. Common service will resume on the sixth of January, 2023. I’ll See you then!
Dave Verwer 
