Embedded Swift Gets Major Upgrades in Swift 6.3

Swift 6.3 is bringing significant enhancements to Embedded Swift, the subset of Swift designed for resource-constrained environments like microcontrollers. Here’s what’s new:

Key Improvements

Libraries & Standard Library

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Swift 6.3 is bringing significant enhancements to Embedded Swift, the subset of Swift designed for resource-constrained environments like microcontrollers. Here's what's new:

Key Improvements

Libraries & Standard Library

  • Floating-point printing: The description and debugDescription properties now work for Float, Double, and other floating-point types with a new all-Swift implementation
  • Better diagnostics: New EmbeddedRestrictions diagnostic group warns about unsupported language constructs
  • Swift MMIO 0.1.x: Includes code generation from SVD files and improved debugging with SVD2LLDB plugin

C Interoperability

  • @c attribute: Define C-compatible functions and enums (from SE-0495) 
@c(MyLib_initialize)
public func initialize() { ... }
  • Improved type matching: Better tolerance for mismatching C signatures, eliminating cryptic deserialization errors

Debugging

  • Enhanced LLDB support: Better value printing for Embedded Swift types
  • Core dump inspection: Dictionary, Array, and other common types now inspectable without a live process
  • ARMv7m exception unwinding: Complete backtraces through exception frames

Linking & Compilation

  • @section and @used attributes: Control where globals are emitted and ensure symbols aren't stripped (SE-0492)
  • Weak symbol definitions: Fixes duplicate symbol errors in diamond dependencies
  • @export attribute: Better control over function visibility (SE-0497)

Want to dive deeper? Read the full announcement on Swift.org


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