Articles by Sergio De Simone

A group of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Monash University have presented a new approach to text input generation for mobile app testing based on a pre-trained large language model (LLM). Dubbed QTypist, the approach was evaluate…

The Swift team has started to work on a new open-source implementation of the Foundation framework. To be written entirely in Swift, the new Foundation aims to improve performance by getting rid of conversion costs between Objective-C and Swift as well…

Part of the upcoming Grafana Tempo 2.0, TraceQL is a query language aiming to make it simple to interactively search and extract traces. This will speed up the process of diagnosing and responding to root causes, says Grafana. By Sergio De Simone

The Swift language workgroup has detailed the main focus areas for the development of Swift in 2023 and further on, which include defining an ownership model for memory management, non-copyable types, a macro system, and C++ interoperability. By Sergio…