If you’ve ever written or used a function that accepts a closure as one of its arguments, it’s likely that you’ve encountered the keyword. When a closure is marked as escaping in Swift… (more…)

I recently attended the Swift Summit 2016 conference in San Francisco, CA. To be honest, it has been a few years since I decided to attend a conference due to my lackluster experiences at conferences in the past. Sponsors Provide Value, Not Noise Unfortun...

swift-evolution - This maintains proposals for changes and user-visible enhancements to the Swift Programming Language. (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…)

Detailed side-by-side comparison of language features between Dart 2.1 and Swift 4.2. (more…)