After WWDC, I saw Devon Maloney posted a slide saying Apple has “started writing parts of the core operating system kernel in Swift” for the 27 releases. First steps toward a memory-safe kernel. What does this even mean?!Naturally I dropped what I was doing and went grepping through the iOS 27 kernelcache. Alas, nothing came of it. All is not lost though: I found the Embedded Swift runtime in macOS 27, sitting in com.apple.kec.pthread of all pla…
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