In June, Apple introduced Swift System, a new library for Apple platforms that provides idiomatic interfaces to system calls and low-level currency types. Today, I’m excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing System and adding Linux support! Our vision ... (more…)
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Swift’s type system is (mostly) fantastic. It’s tight constraints and flexible generics allow developers to express complicated concepts in an extremely safe manner because the Swift compiler will… (more…)
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The Raspberry Pi is a fun little device that everyone can learn from. From robotics to home automation, you can use it to do just about anything. In September 2019, I hosted a workshop at try! Swift NYC where we used a Raspberry Pi to build a distance mea... (more…)
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GCD is not for thread-unsafe shared resources since it does not guarantee the same thread will be used. We can use threads API with a bit of sugar syntax. (more…)
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