Does refcounting use less memory than tracing GC? Swift vs. OCaml
The way software developers cling to folklore and avoid proper experimental testing of hypotheses really bothers me. I think perhaps the wor... (more…)
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Unlike its predecessors C and Objective-C, Swift has the concept of Optional types. By default, variables in Swift cannot be set to nil… Read more
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Read more »A step-by-step Haskell x Swift interoperability guide
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Read more »Swift for Data Science / ML / Big Data Analytics
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Read more »Swift Package Registry Spec
Hello! Last June, Apple and GitHub announced that the GitHub Package Registry will support Swift packages. A few months ago, Bryan Clark started a thread to gather ideas about a standard package registry API that could be implemented by anyone, not only ... (more…)
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