Building DSLs in Swift John Sundell demonstrates how Swift's type inference and overloading capabilities make it a great language for building Domain Specific Languages. Posted on October 21, 2018 #dsl
Sizes - View your app on different device and font sizes This is a really cool Swift library from Marcos Griselli. It enables us to evaluate how our app layout behaves across all possible device sizes, orientations, and font combinations while running on a single simulator configuration. Very useful. Posted on October 18, 2018 #library #iOS
New LSP language service supporting Swift and C-family languages for any editor and platform On the official Swift forums, Argyrios Kyrtzidis announces that Apple are going to start a new open-source project for a Swift and C-family language service based on the Language Server Protocol. What this means is that they will focus on building common infrastructure that can be shared by Xcode and other editors such as Atom or Sublime Text. Posted on October 17, 2018 #evolution #apple
Hiding Implementation Details Using internal Properties Arek Holko demonstrates how to provide dependency injection while hiding implementation details using internal properties. Posted on October 12, 2018 #encapsulation
Smoke Framework Amazon engineering have released a light-weight server-side service framework written in Swift. It uses SwiftNIO for it’s networking layer, and can even be used with model code generators such as Swagger. Posted on October 12, 2018 #library
Swift Evolution - Fix ExpressibleByStringInterpolation This is a really cool Swift language evolution proposal which proposes a new design for the ExpressibleByStringInterpolation protocol. Due to issues with the original implementation of this protocol, it was deprecated. The new design aims to address these issues, and add new capabilities to string interpolation. Posted on October 10, 2018 #string #interpolation #evolution
Bloom Filters and Swift 4.2 This is a really interesting post from Soroush Khanlou. Soroush explains how a data structure called a Bloom filter works, and describes how we can implement such a data structure using Swift 4.2 features. Posted on October 5, 2018 #hashable #collection
The State of Developer Ecosystems - Swift & Objective-C JetBrains have collected data on the current state of developer ecosystems, and published this interested report on how Swift and Objective-C are being used. Posted on October 4, 2018 #objective-c
It’s wrappers all the way down Ole Begemann uses the example of splitting a string to teach us about the design of collection types and protocol hierarchy in the Swift standard library. Posted on September 30, 2018 #collection
Swift 5.0 Release Process On the official Swift blog, Ted Kremenek outlines the goals, release process, and estimated schedule for Swift 5. The primary goal of the next major release is achieving application binary interface stability, meaning Swift code compiled against different Swift compiler versions will be able to interoperate. Posted on September 28, 2018 #swift5 #evolution