Swift

If you’ve been using and/or developing on macOS for some time, it’s possible that you’ve heard that macOS uses the Apple File System (APFS). You’ve possibly also heard of its numerous benefits over traditional filesystems, such as copy on write, cloning (where unchanged blocks can be shared between multiple files), and, the topic of this post, sparse files. Sparse files are files with blank sections, and are used for virtual machines with Apple’s Virtualization....