I'd like to start this off by saying that I am in no means an expert. While I... (more…)

In his excellent interview with the Accidental Tech Podcast, Chris Lattner defended the goal of Swift being suitable to both beginner and advanced programmers. He cites progressive disclosure, a design philosophy that is often employed in GUI applications...

Following Google’s announcement at Google I/O 2017 that Kotlin would be getting first class support on Android, Wesley Reisz spoke to Andrey Breslav, the lead language designer of Kotlin at JetBrains. (more…)

More precisely, the introduction of SE-0142 and SE-0157 has made canonical type computation into an undecidable problem. I'll begin with the necessary background information before presenting my argument, and then outlining the next steps. Canonical type... (more…)

SAM-Swift - The SAM (State-Action-Model) pattern in Swift... (more…)