Swift Weekly - Issue #32

Andy Bargh with a fairly extensive introduction to Sets.

Wooji Juice write about their mostly positive experience of developing a fairly large, sophisticated app in Swift.

In another article by Erica Sadun this week, she writes about implementing a queue using an array.

Erica writes about the things that she’d like to see happen in Swift. Several of them already came up in discussions on the mailing list but never made it to review (yet).

Andyy Hope gives an introduction to Tuples in Swift and explains when, how and why you should use them.

Log is a powerful logging tool that provides built-in themes and formatters, and a nice API to define your owns.

Swift is expanding commit access to project contributors who have established a track record of good contributions (at least 5 non-trivial pull requests that were accepted without modifications).

Vivek Gani gives an introduction to ReactiveCocoa and demos some of its power using a Swift Playground.

Do you want to contribute to Swift? In this talk Jesse Squires explores the different parts of Swift, shows how the various Swift projects are related and discusses the skills you need to get started.

In this talk from MBLTDev 2015, Marius summarizes his team’s experiences building a framework for Swift, pointing out pitfalls to avoid and giving hints to help you find your sweet spot for development in the fast-evolving Swift ecosystem.

Enhance your app / service with a photo editor. It’s fully customizable and SDKs available for iOS and HTML5.

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