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…)

Summary — Using Swift as a backend language at this stage is an interesting learning experience and well-suited to a project of this small… (more…)

It all starts by reading this week in Swift, and the article The best hardware to build with Swift is not what you might think, written by the LinkedIn team about how apparently their Mac Pros are … (more…)

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…)

Using data from facilities including NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), scientists have studied 20 instances and counting of regular outbursts of an event called ASASSN-14ko. Astronomers classify ga... (more…)