• What’s new in Swift: January 2026 Edition A Reddit thread earlier this month asked about building web apps with Swift. • For this edition of “What’s new in Swift,” we invited a developer to share their experience: Hi, I’m Nick Sloan. • I’m the head of engineering at Studioworks, a platform that makes it easy and fun to run your creative studio, agency or freelance business. • We chose Swift for Studioworks because of how easy it is to write safe and reliable code with great performance. • Our Swift project makes use of Hummingbird 2, Soto (for its incredible DynamoDB Codable support), Hummingbird MacroRouting, and Elementary. • Studioworks is a big and growing project.

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  • Swift’s January 2026 update highlights a growing web‑side ecosystem and new tooling. Studioworks, a large creative‑studio platform, reports success using Swift on the server with Hummingbird 2, Soto for DynamoDB, MacroRouting, and Elementary for templating, noting fewer crashes and sub‑100 ms page loads. The release spotlights new packages: Cadova for code‑based 3D modeling, Feather Database for concurrency‑friendly, driver‑agnostic data access, and Swift ports of the .NET Foundation mail stack. Community news includes a Yocto guide for Raspberry Pi Zero 2, open conference registrations, and ongoing Swift Evolution proposals such as SE‑0506 for advanced observation tracking.

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