71: “Polymorphic interfaces”, with special guest Dave Abrahams

Dave Abrahams joins John to talk about Protocol-Oriented Programming and how to make the most out of the Swift Standard Library. Also, discussions on Swift’s overall design, why it puts such a strong emphasis on value types and protocols, and how it’s been influenced by other languages.

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Links

• Dave on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• Protocol-Oriented Programming in Swift
• Embracing Algorithms
• Alexander Stepanov
• The C++ Standard Template Library
• Boost
• Enums with custom raw types
• Previous Swift for TensorFlow episode with Paige Bailey and Brennan Saeta
• Sean Parent
• Haskell Type Classes
• AnyCollection
• Specializing protocols
• Type erasure using closures
• Codable
• “The Genuine Sieve of Eratosthenes” by Melissa E. O’Neill
• Swift for TensorFlow open design meetings
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk