Cost savings and an active community act as big players in the move to go open source.

The aim of the Journeyman guides is solving specif problems. They cover the missing link between a beginner and an expert. Many times, I've been stuck trying to solve a problem; trying to get a solution that the trivial examples don't cover, or that the e... (more…)

This week, let’s take a look at the various ways that Swift closures can capture the objects and values that they depend on, and how we can control those mechanics. (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…)

The Swift type-checker remains a performance bottleneck for compile times, though it has improved tremendously over the past two years. You could even say the type-checker has gone from being drunk to sober. To help users debug these issues, awhile... (more…)