109: “Code maintenance”, with special guest Nick Lockwood

Nick Lockwood joins John for a discussion about maintaining Swift code bases — from open source projects, to ones worked on by teams of various sizes. Also, the design of ShapeScript, using async/await within unit tests, and much more.

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Links

• Nick on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• ShapeScript on the App Store
• The source code for ShapeScript on GitHub
• fastlane
• ShapeScript’s iteration syntax
• VRML
• Layout
• AppleScript
• Lisp
• SwiftFormat
• SwiftLint
• Recent episode with Christian Selig about open source
• Euclid
• OpenSCAD
• Publish
• Semantic Versioning
• Compiler directives in Swift
• Danger
• Unit testing
• The Swift Package Manager
• Using async/await when writing unit tests
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk