An Introduction to the Swift Programming Language
summary
Claims concrete performance wins with measured numbers and community scale the slides run benchmarks: 1.87s vs 4.15s comparing Swift to Java and list memory and CPU differences, plus reported community stats 800 contributors 100000 commits 1600 releases. Shows server tooling and experiments: Vapor, Perfect.org, Kitura/Kitura sunset, Swift on AWS Lambda Google Cloud OpenWhisk containers and Swift for TensorFlow. Explains language features that mattered like optionals and SwiftUI and demonstrates that people build back ends and web apps and that things actually compile and run.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 2:03Initializing: Obj-C vs. Swift
- 3:33Catchy Syntax
- 5:10Interoperability
- 7:29Optionals ?!
- 15:01Server-Side Swift
- 28:41The Future of Swift...
- 32:48Swift for Windows
- 36:18Machine Learning
- 37:39Swift for Tensorflow
- 41:51Learn More + Get Started!
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