Catching up with Swift
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Summary of Swift's state circa 2014–15: Swift adds generics, native Unicode strings and collections, and a REPL/playgrounds workflow, but keeps ARC instead of GC and requires Obj‑C interop. A three‑person team ships an Artsy Eidolon bidding kiosk from August to late October using Swift betas, builds a cocoapods plugin, disables compiler optimizations to avoid segfaults, buys faster iPads, endures Xcode crashes and abandons unit tests, accruing technical debt that later gets paid down. Early use works but is painful.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:45Agenda
- 6:35Language Evolution
- 12:17Objective-C Replacement
- 14:01Abandon C Roots
- 14:35Be Memory Managed
- 16:32Native Unicode Strings
- 18:05Native Collections
- 18:27Be Concise
- 18:51Named Parameters
- 19:58Generics
- 22:17Lazy Swift
- 24:26Extending Types
- 25:14Index Paths
- 29:29Open Source by Default
- 30:26August
- 30:43September
- 32:33October
- 35:54Safe Bets
- 37:02Predictions
- 38:44Recap
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