It’s now possible to create a local variable that’s assigned to an expression that has the same name, without having to manually disambiguate with ‘self’. (more…)

Do you think Swift structs are safe? This video may change your mind. “Structs should be the default choice” and “Only use classes when necessary” is common advice but might be misleading. We’d like to show you a different way of looking at the “Structs v... (more…)

A list of Gists containing simple but useful Swift code written by Richard Stelling - @rjstelling... (more…)

At Kickstarter, Android and iOS development co-exist harmoniously. Our small team of native engineers have spent the past two years embracing functional prog... (more…)

My last post explained that invoking swift/utils/build-script compiles the C++ source code in the apple/swift project and produces a swift compiler executable. (more…)