Mar 6, 2017

Swift Weekly - Issue #66

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March 6 · Issue #66 · View online

Hey folks,

this week we have an index to the swift-evolution proposal process, a way to detect retain cycles with a simple unit test and a way out of the singleton hell that is called NetworkManager.

Additionally Chris Eidhof talks about dynamic Swift and a few interesting frameworks were pushed to GitHub, for example a cross-platform String library.

Happy reading!

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Resources

Swift Evolution

apple.github.io – Share

A searchable nicely formatted look at the swift-evolution proposals, including rejected ones.

Developing iOS 10 Apps with Swift - Free Course by Stanford on iTunes U

itunes.apple.com – Share

Stanford’s famous iOS development course is back and updated for iOS 10. If you are just getting started with iOS development, I can highly recommend this.

Articles

Exploring Server-side Swift

ustwo.com – Share

Aaron McTavish created a little sample called Mockingbird to explore Swift on Linux and the Swift Package Manager.

Bridging Swift Types to Objective-C

blog.benjamin-encz.de – Share

Benjamin Encz writes about an approach to bridge Swift types that are not bridgable by default to Objective-C.

Abolish Retain Cycles in Swift with a Single Unit Test

medium.com – Share

While retain cycles are easy to fix, they’re also hard to spot while eyeballing a codebase. This unit test by Alex Manarpies makes sure you don’t introduce any retain cycles.

Network Layers in Swift – CompileSwift – Medium

medium.com – Share

How to avoid the Big-Fat-Singleton™ often called NetworkManager and live happily.

Talks

Dynamic Swift

www.skilled.io – Share

Chris Eidhof takes a runtime API, replicates it in Swift and shows how Swift actually is a very dynamic language, even if it doesn’t have that much support for runtime programming yet.

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Libraries & Code