123: “The evolution of Swift”, with special guest Nick Lockwood

Swift by Sundell

On this final episode of 2022, Nick Lockwood returns to the show to discuss the overall evolution of Swift and its ecosystem of tools and libraries. How has Swift changed since its original introduction in 2014, how does it compare to other modern programming languages, and how might the language continue to evolve in 2023 and beyond?

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Links

• Nick on Mastodon
• John on Mastodon
• ShapeScript
• Kotlin
• Rust
• NSProxy
• Lisp
• Macros in C and C++
• Reflection in Swift
• PHP
• The Result type
• Classes vs structs
• Swift’s API design guidelines
• Swift Concurrency
• Swift Async Algorithms
• The Future of Foundation
• Swift Collections
• Swift Evolution proposal for function back deployment
• Building editable lists with SwiftUI
• The Swift features that power SwiftUI’s API
• Publish (static site generation in Swift)
• swift-sh by Max Howell
• Swift Evolution proposal for adding macros to the language
• Accessing a property wrapper’s enclosing instance
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk