
123: “The evolution of Swift”, with special guest Nick Lockwood
Swift by Sundell
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Swift
When we first encountered Swift as Objective-C developers, it wasn't like universally liked. There was actually a sort of a running joke that Swifty was just syntax sugar for LLVM. But I don't think that's actually a fair sort of assessment of the language. And these days when I write Swift's code, I find myself thinking so much more about how am I passing my data around and how can I make sure that type information is preserved even when I'm doing something dynamic.
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