
113: “Where is Swift headed in 2022?”, with special guest JP Simard
Swift by Sundell
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The Cost of Hitting Complexity
J p: There is a cost involved with hiding complexity to make callsites, or even the end user experience more approachable and have more progressive disclosure. And that cost is that you are somewhat shifting some of that complexity away from the user ind more on the implementation. I think every swift developer who has used l d b has probably run into a situation where l d b was not able to resolve what they were trying to introspect. This is where we get into some of this complexity being pushed down under the hood having siht effects such as making some of the tooling more complex,. which means that it fails more.
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