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123: “The evolution of Swift”, with special guest Nick Lockwood

Swift by Sundell

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Is Swift Changing Your Approach to Development?

With Swift, you can't refactor this code. There's no way to find all of the different places that it's referenced. It's all like strings that are being concatenated at runtime to make the final selector or something. I used to view things like that as being super cool and super useful because you could use those kind of more dynamic features in a way where you could write way less code. But now with Swift, I feel like I've completely kind of changed my prioritiesWhere I instead want to really use that static nature of Swift to ensure that my code works as I intended.

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