Joannis Orlandos stops by to chat about WendyOS, an operating system for bringing Swift and AI to robots, drones, and edge devices. We get into running Swift on NVIDIA Jetson and Raspberry Pi hardware, the future of cross-platform Swift across Android, Windows, and Wasm, and somehow end up arguing about whether you should let LLMs format your code at all.

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• Joannis Orlandos
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• WendyOS — The open-source OS for Physical AI

Related Links

• Wendy Labs Inc. — GitHub
• WendyOS Documentation
• Swift on Server — Joannis Orlandos
• Hummingbird — Lightweight Swift web framework
• MLX — Apple's array framework for machine learning
• Swift Android Working Group — Swift Forums
• Build and Packaging Workgroup — Swift.org
• Swift Evolution
• Bringing Swift to Android — Goodnotes

Related Episodes

• Swift Server Workgroup with Joannis Orlandos
• Swift on Android with Marc Prud'hommeaux
• Swift, Server Side, Serverless with Sébastien Stormacq

Chapters

• (00:00) - What Is WendyOS
• (05:15) - Swift, Hardware & Getting Started
• (16:18) - Swift Everywhere: Multi-Platform Future
• (21:24) - Swift on Windows, SQL Server & WWDC Preview
• (30:19) - AI, Skill Files & LLM Workflows
• (42:30) - Swift 6.4 & Wrap-Up

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