WWDC 2015 Swift Panel Discussion
During Apple's WWDC 2015, we were very happy to host a panel of leading voices from the Swift community. Reflecting of Apple's latest anno…
on Jun 22 2015
(Functional) Programming for Everyone
One of the grandest ambitions for Swift is the transformation of programming education. After open sourcing, Swift will run on many more k…
on Jun 19 2015
Extracurricular Swift
Swift is praised by many developers, but it also opens up exciting opportunities in education. In this talk, Sally Shepard emphasizes the …
on Jun 18 2015
Taylor: The Most Un-Googleable Swift Library
There are many programming topics that developers are familiar with, but don't truly understand. As an example of self-education, the youn…
on Jun 18 2015
CryptoSwift: Cryptography You Can Do
Cryptography is the ancient science of writing in secret code, and it is critically important for modern applications, but what options do…
on Jun 5 2015
Swift Funtime
We love the Objective-C runtime for three main reasons: dynamic introspection, behavior changing, and the ability to analyze private APIs.…
on Jun 5 2015
JSON, Swift, and Type Safety: It's a wrap
JSON parsing has been a persistent challenge for Swift developers. In the first six months of Swift's release, perhaps more articles were …
on Jun 5 2015
Swift, Meet Objective-C
Swift is here to stay, but Objective-C is not going to fade away quickly. Many developers have existing codebases, but they also have dead…
on Jun 1 2015
The Future Belongs to the Young
Only one year old, Swift is still very much a young language. It is often said that the future belongs to the young, but what about the pr…
on Jun 1 2015
Swift Panel: Where do we go from here?
Recorded on the last day of Swift Summit, and released in time for Swift's 1st birthday, Kyle Fuller, Jack Nutting, Boris Bügling, Radek P…
on Jun 1 2015
Functional View Controllers: An Experiment
We tightly couple our view controllers to data models, networking, and the next view controller. Are there ways to avoid this? In this tal…
on May 29 2015
The Type System is Your Friend
Swift is strongly typed, but how do we use this to our advantage? In this talk, Johannes Weiß shows us how we can leverage the type system…
on May 28 2015
What Haskell Taught Me About Writing Swift
Unfamiliarity is often mistaken for complexity. In this talk, Abizer Nasir explains why a little knowledge of Haskell helps us to think ab…
on May 28 2015
Unsafe Swift: For Fun & Profit
One of the main stated goals of Swift is safety. You can see it reflected in the design of String, or the use of Optionals. For better or …
on May 26 2015
Swift All-Star Panel
Brian Gesiak, Chris Eidhof, Ayaka Nonaka, and Airspeed Velocity sit down with Colin Eberhardt to discuss The State of Swift. If you want i…
on May 26 2015
Testing in Swift
Swift promises us the best from both imperative and functional languages, but this will affect the way we test our applications. Jan Riehn…
on May 25 2015
Debugging in Swift: How Hard Can It Be?
Why is debugging in Swift so much more frustrating than debugging in Objective-C? Expanding on her recent experience of using Swift in pro…
on May 25 2015
How Swift is Swift?
Exactly how Swift is Swift? The language was designed for speed, but looking at comparisons, there are obvious places where code could be …
on May 22 2015