Swift has built-in support for bridging native strings to C strings, but this doesn’t include transparent bridging of arrays of strings to arrays of C strings. Here I discuss an internal helper function the Swift standard library uses for this purpose.

Chris Hulbert, Splinter Software, is a contracting iOS developer based in Australia. (more…)

I was sad to hear John Conway had recently died of COVID-19. Conway was a mathematician who contributed much to his field, but for me as a computer scientist, I knew of him for his Game of Life (aka just Life). (more…)

Testing network I/O code without accessing the backend is not easy. Here is how you can mock the backend by injecting code into the URL Loading System... (more…)

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions. Contribute to realm/SwiftLint development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)