84: “Key paths, functions and closures”, with special guest Vincent Pradeilles

Vincent Pradeilles joins John to discuss various ways to use Swift language features like key paths and closures, how they relate to patterns typically used within functional programming, and when and how to adopt such patterns.

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Links

• Vincent on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• ios_memes
• Function builders
• Property wrappers
• Combining dynamic member lookup with key paths
• SwiftUI’s List type
• NSSpain (use offer code “Sundell” for 10% off, by the way)
• Key paths
• Passing key paths as functions
• Map, FlatMap and CompactMap
• Combine
• GraphQL
• CaseIterable
• Sourcery
• First class functions
• Function currying
• Haskell
• Dependency injection using functions
• Pure functions
• Vincent’s talk about function composition
• Vincent’s talk about implementing pseudo-keywords through functional programing
• Swift’s closure capturing mechanics
• Kickstarter’s iOS app
• The delegate pattern
• Vincent’s KeyPathKit library
• Vincent’s YouTube channel
• “Crazy idea: What if we used marketing to start a tech blog?“
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk