Data Classes in Swift This is an interesting post from Jorge Martín in which he looks at Kotlin’s data class type, and examines how such a type could be used in Swift to easily copy and mutate state. Posted on April 17, 2018 #kotlin #struct
Enums And Optionals In this post, Soroush Khanlou explains how adding an extra case to an enum can replace the usage of optional enum values. As Soroush says, simplicity is king, and I agree that it’s worth taking the time to think about whether an extra optional case makes sense. Posted on April 16, 2018 #enum #optional
Overture - A library for function composition This Swift library from Point-Free provides APIs which make it easy for us to produce new functions from a combination of existing functions. Posted on April 14, 2018 #library
Understanding protocol associated types and their constraints Paul Hudson dives into Swift protocols and associated types. Paul explains why protocol associated types are so powerful, before showing us how best control their complexity using constraints. Posted on April 11, 2018 #protocol #generics
Netfox - A lightweight, one line setup, iOS / OSX network debugging library! This is a pretty cool library from Christos Kasketis. It provides a quick look of all executed network requests performed by an iOS or OSX app. Definitely useful. 🦊. Posted on April 10, 2018 #library #iOS #OSX
Swift Evolution - Hashable Enhancements This is an interesting Swift evolution proposal from Karoy Lorentey and Vincent Esche. They propose enhancements to the Hashable protocol, which should make it easier for types to manually conform to the protocol. Posted on April 10, 2018 #evolution #hash
Expanding Swift's Reach This is an interesting article from Benedikt Terhechte, in which he examines the issues preventing Swift from broader adoption in domains such as system programming. Benedikt first looks at language competitors in the systems programming space, before outlining how Swift can start to make inroads. Posted on April 9, 2018 #system #language
Optionals as Collections Joshua Emmons returns to a post he wrote on dealing with optionals and failable initializers. Joshua goes back to basics, looking at how flapMap applies to optionals, and comes to realise that when we think of optionals as collections, things make more sense. Posted on April 8, 2018 #optional #flatmap
CocoaPods 1.5.0 — Swift Static Libraries Coming just a few months after the release of Cocoapods 1.4, this latest release of the popular dependency manager adds support for building Swift pods as static libraries. This is something that will please a lot a developers, especially those building command line tools. Posted on April 8, 2018 #cocoapods
Whats new in Swift 4.1? To demonstrate what’s new in Swift 4.1, Paul Hudson has created this Xcode playground. The playground includes code samples for all the new Swift 4.1 features we have been looking forward to. Very handy! Posted on April 8, 2018 #swift4.1 #playground