Accidental Tech Podcast

ATP Interview: Holly Borla & Ben Cohen

Jun 12, 2024
Guest
Ben Cohen
Guest
Holly Borla
Swift Language Engineering Manager Holly Borla and Senior Software Engineering Manager Ben Cohen discuss topics such as data race safety in Swift 6, the evolution of Swift compiler, maintaining code quality, ensuring thread safety, transitioning to Swift Concurrency, and collaborative development of language features for Swift.
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1
Intro
00:00 • 2min
2
Journey to Swift Compiler Engineering
01:32 • 12min
3
Balancing Swift Accessibility and Advanced Concurrency Concepts
13:31 • 7min
4
Ensuring Code Quality and Thread Safety
20:02 • 4min
5
Exploring Concurrency Challenges in Swift Development
24:18 • 2min
6
Incremental Adoption of Swift 6 Features
26:22 • 9min
7
Open and Transparent Development of Swift
35:31 • 11min
8
Collaborative Development of Language Features for Swift
46:44 • 13min