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...

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A collection of the papers, conference talks, articles, blog posts, interesting Twitter threads, HN/reddit comments on systems engineering - copyconstruct/library... (more…)

GRDB.swift - A Swift application toolkit for SQLite databases, with WAL mode support... (more…)

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