Over the last few months I’ve dabbled in two new languages. Swift and Kotlin. These two languages have a number of similarities. Indeed, the similarities are so stark that I wonder if this isn’t a new trend in our language churn. If so, it is a da...

Over the past year I have been evolving an app architecture where functional reactive paradigm is an equal-class citizen. The architecture… (more…)

Rather than making you more productive, Swift is preventing you from getting anything done.

Let’s take a look at one of the core aspects of object-oriented programming — initialization. What characteristics should an initializer ideally have, and what sort of techniques could be useful in order to keep our initializers simple and predictable? (more…)

Generics are an advanced Swift feature to generalizer and reuse code. You will learn why generics exist and how to use them in your apps. (more…)