Swift was introduced a couple of years ago at Apple's 2014 WWDC. Over the years I analyzed iOS to measure how many built-in applications were using Swift. iOS 9 released in 2015 included a single application written with Swift: Calculator. Since then this... (more…)
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Hello everyone, With the recent introduction of Swift concurrency, and most notably actors to the language, Swift gained powerful and foundational building blocks for expressing thread-safe concurrent programs. This proposal aims to extend Swift's actors... (more…)
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Let’s take a look at a few different ways to add plugin support to a type or library, and how doing so can enable a system to become a lot more decoupled and flexible. (more…)
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Daniel Steinberg from Dim Sum Thinking explains what's new in Swift 4! (more…)
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Systems programmers who frequently switch between operating systems suffer from POSIX amnesia. That’s when you know what POSIX function to… (more…)
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