Swift Weekly - Issue #145

Mostafa Abdellateef recently had to debug an issue in a code written in Swift, a variable whose value was unexpectedly changed by different threads. In this article he explains available approaches.

In this article, Majid shows you a nice use case of protocols while maintaining the state of ViewControllers.

A great number of new CLI tools are written in relatively young programming languages such as Go and Rust. But, noticeably, none of them are written in Swift. This article explains why that is.

Just like sequential code, concurrent code can come in many different shapes and forms. Depending on what we’re trying to achieve, the abstraction that’ll prove to be the best fit might very quite a lot from use case to use case. One such abstraction is Tasks, and this article takes a look at some scenarios in which they can become really useful.

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Using the hidden power of CaseIterable to represent unknown values in RawRepresentable types.

This article by Artem Loenko summarizes all the changes and new features in Xcode 10.2 and Swift 5.

Andrew Scott explains how to build a scalable, quick URL shortener that will support both automatic and custom URL shortening capabilities using Vapor. 

Samantha John shares how you can fix strong reference cycles caused by Arrays in Swift.

Keith Harrison has a quick tip to create a custom scheme to avoid unnecessary work when unit testing.

When to go for Alamofire and when to use URLSession. Take a look at the advantages and disadvantages while this article compares both frameworks.

📃 FoldingCell is an expanding content cell with animation.

The modern video player for macOS.

A little native network debugging tool for iOS.