Articles, podcasts and news about Swift development, by John Sundell.
On this special Stacktrace cross-over episode of the show, Gui Rambo joins John to talk about building custom developer tools, how open Apple’s tooling really is, writing “Swifty” code versus shipping great user experiences, and much more.
For the 150th weekly article on this site, and the last one before the end of the decade, let’s look back at how Swift has fundamentally changed the way apps for Apple’s platforms are built, and where things might be going from here.
John is joined by Paige Bailey and Brennan Saeta from the Swift for TensorFlow team at Google, to talk about the work they’re doing adopting and adapting Swift for Machine Learning. What makes Swift a good fit for this task, how might the language need to evolve to support this type of use cases even better, and much more.
Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, joins John on this 50th episode of the show — to discuss the current state of Swift and how it came to be, as well as to speculate about what the future of the language and its ecosystem might look like.
Ted Kremenek, manager of the Languages and Runtimes team at Apple, joins John to talk about Swift 5 — focusing on ABI stability and what it means for the future of the language, how the underpinnings of String have been improved in this release, how Apple is using Swift internally, and much more.
Meghan Kane joins John for a special Machine Learning episode of the show — talking about how to get started with tools like CoreML and TensorFlow, what they can be used for, deciphering the terminology, how Swift might be used for ML tooling in the future, and much more!
Tanner Nelson, creator of the Vapor web framework, joins John to talk about the present & future of server-side Swift, designing Vapor’s API, Apple’s new SwiftNIO project, marrying the concepts of Swift with the web, and much more.