Time traveling with Swift
summary
Timeline of Swift from Objective‑C roots to an independent language with concrete wins: adoption of automatic reference counting and the push from classes to structs, measured speed claims (8.4× Python, 2.6× Objective‑C), the practical wedge of Swift UI enabling value‑type UIs, ABI stability that shrinks app size by moving the runtime to the OS, dynamic libraries and faster launches, actors for concurrency, server‑side work (Vapor), and numeric/ML toolchains like Swift RT — plus cross‑platform strides to Linux, Windows and Android.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:47What is Swift?
- 5:53Introducing ARC
- 6:49Reference Loops
- 11:55Building a Language
- 13:52Gilded Age of Swift
- 15:20Swift is Open Source
- 20:51Struct Performance
- 23:03Swift ABI Stability
- 25:35App Launch Time
- 27:05Dynamic Libraries
- 30:25Foundations of NS
- 31:59Protocol vs. Interface
- 40:42Cross-Platform Swift
- 45:29Server-Side Swift
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