The goal of re-evaluating Strings for Swift 4 has been fairly ill-defined thus far, with just this short blurb in the list of goals:

Burrito - 🌯 Unwrapping your Swift optionals in a type-safe manner, backed by default values. (more…)

A tuple in Swift is a construct that groups multiple values together into a single compound value. Tuples can be useful when more than one value type can provide more useful information about the outcome of a behavior or action than simply returning a sin...

Swift 3 replaces NSData with the Data value type. Implement a Doom Wad file parser with the new Data type to understand the differences.

You asked, he answered! The creator of Apple's Swift programming language (and a self-described "long-time reader/fan of Slashdot") stopped by on his way to a new job at Tesla just to field questions from Slashdot readers. Read on for Chris's answers...