First part of an in-depth guide into developing a native macOS application using Haskell with Swift and SwiftUI. This part covers the set-up required to call Haskell functions from Swift in an XCode project using SwiftUI. (more…)

Swift 5 brought us ABI stability, which is a major milestone in helping the language grow beyond Apple’s walled garden. With version 5.1, we have module... (more…)

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…)

Almost two years ago to the day, we had a chance to check out Acer’s Swift 3 laptop featuring AMD's first Ryzen Mobile platform, Raven Ridge. Acer has been a strong partner for AMD, generally being one of the first out of the gate with new designs featuri... (more…)

There are a number of CPU and GPU synthetic tests for Apple products. However, as iOS and macOS developers, we want to understand the real (but still relative) performance of iMac and MacBook in one of the most used tools - Xcode. (more…)