Lack of ABI stability, slow compile times, poor Xcode support, and more hold Swift back... (more…)

Back in the dark ages of Swift 1, I wrote an article about locks and thread safety in Swift. The march of time has made it fairly obsolete, and reader Seth Willits suggested I update it for the modern age, so here it is! (more…)

Algebraic types… seems like the kind of math-y work Haskell programmers would use. But in reality you don’t need to know type theory or have a PhD in mathematics to understand them. Algebraic types arent new types. They are simply a new way of thinking ab... (more…)

Covers value and reference semantics, advantage of value types in Swift and how to use value and reference types in designing applications... (more…)

Sequences and collections give you all these interesting and useful tools that you can use to solve the problem more easily... (more…)