Articles, podcasts and news about Swift development, by John Sundell.
On this 2022 season premiere, JP Simard returns to the show to discuss what’s next for Swift in 2022, and what kinds of improvements and new features that might be coming to the language during the year.
What’s the difference between those two ways, and when should which be used?
A look at the various sorting APIs that the Swift standard library offers, and how we could augment those APIs in order to make more advanced sorting tasks easier to perform.
This week, let’s explore how we can make use of the standard library’s built-in algorithms when performing various types of queries against collections of values.
Dave Abrahams joins John to talk about Protocol-Oriented Programming and how to make the most out of the Swift Standard Library. Also, discussions on Swift’s overall design, why it puts such a strong emphasis on value types and protocols, and how it’s been influenced by other languages.
A look at the standard library’s Result type, what kind of situations that it might be useful in, and tips and tricks that can be good to keep in mind when working with it.
Let’s take a look at how we can utilize Swift’s various collection slicing APIs, and how doing so can help us boost the performance of various algorithms and functionality.
A look at what goes into writing type- and protocol extensions that can be reused between different use cases and projects, and what sort of principles that can be good to keep in mind when doing that.
Swift 5.1 has now been officially released, and despite being a minor release, it contains a substantial number of changes and improvements. This week, let’s take a look at five of those features, and what kind of situations they could be useful in.
Let’s take a look at Swift’s String API — why it’s designed the way it is, and how it deals with some of the challenges of accurately representing text in a modern app. Also, how to subscript a string, extracting and working with substrings, and how strings compare to other kinds of collections.
This week, let’s take a look at a few different ways that we can tweak the way Swift’s Codable API works, and how doing so can let us bridge many of the differences between our Swift types and the serialized data used to represent them — without having to fall back to implementing all of our serialization code from scratch.
One major benefit of Swift’s protocol-oriented design is that it enables us to write generic code that’s compatible with a wide range of types. Let’s take a look at how we can wrap the Sequence protocol in generic containers, that’ll let us encapsulate various algorithms behind easy-to-use APIs.
Introduced in Swift 4, the Codable API enables us to leverage the compiler in order to generate much of the code needed to encode and decode data to/from a serialized format, like JSON. Let’s take a look at how to use it.
This week, let's explore various versions of the commonly used Result type (including the implementation included in the Swift 5 version of the standard library), and some of the cool things it lets us do when combined with some of Swift's language features.
Although Set is one of those core data structures that you see in almost every programming language, it sometimes get a bit overlooked. This week, let's take a look at a few different examples of when using a set can lead to more predictable performance and simpler code, as well as some of Swift's Set type's lesser known - yet very powerful - features.
Almost every Swift program uses collections in one way or another. Whether it's to store values to be displayed in some form of list, to keep track of observers, or caching data - collections are everywhere. This week, let's take a look at some of the standard library APIs that let us easily transform collections in a very functional way.
When creating collections of objects or values in Swift, we usually use data structures provided by the standard library - such as Array, Dictionary and Set. While those three cover most use cases, sometimes creating a custom wrapper collection can enable us to make our code more predictable and less prone to errors.
Swift 4 introduces a new, refined string API that is easier to use, more powerful, and gives the programmer more control in terms of memory management. This week, let’s take a look at how it is to work with strings in Swift 4, and how we can take advantage of the new, improved API in various situations.