Holly Borla and Grace Kendall, both software engineers at Apple, join John to go on a deep dive into the Swift Playgrounds app and Swift 5.2’s new diagnostics engine. Also, how Swift Playgrounds was ported to the Mac using Catalyst, and Swift’s role in ed... (more…)
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Design patterns come and go, and one of the fads currently ascendant in the iOS/Swift programming world is the concept of Immutable Objects. Pretty straightforward. Immutable objects are considered… (more…)
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The latest edition of the TIOBE Index, which attempts to gauge the popularity of the world’s programming languages, reveals something fascinating: Go,... (more…)
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The ultimate guide for decoding characteristics' raw data received from Bluetooth Low Energy devices to meaningful Swift types. (more…)
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Back in 2014, I wrote a post titled Remove features for greater power, aka: Swift and Objective-C initializers . In this post, I compared t... (more…)
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