Holly Borla and Grace Kendall, both software engineers at Apple, join John to go on a deep dive into the Swift Playgrounds app and Swift 5.2’s new diagnostics engine. Also, how Swift Playgrounds was ported to the Mac using Catalyst, and Swift’s role in ed... (more…)

And how I went from complete beginner to feeling confident in building iOS apps in Swift... (more…)

An opinionated starting point for awesome, reusable Swift 5 modules - fulldecent/swift5-module-template... (more…)

Ever wondered how a method call in Swift works? Seems pretty simple that you define methods and somehow magically during runtime, the method calls work even though there are so many things to take… (more…)

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...