46: “A desire for simplicity and performance”, with special guest Michael Ilseman

Michael Ilseman, developer on the Swift team at Apple, joins John to go on a deep dive into the String type, its implementation, and its related APIs. Topics range from the way Swift’s String API is designed, to its underlying complexities, and practical performance tips.

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Links

• Michael on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• “UTF-8 String” on the Swift blog
• SE-0247: “Contiguous Strings”
• The dropFirst method
• String literals in Swift
• “String Essentials”
• “String Consumption”
• SE-0241: “Deprecate String Index Encoded Offsets”
• String’s indices property
• “Piercing the String Veil”
• “The Philosopher's String”, Michael’s try! Swift talk
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk