Swift Around the Web
Swift is really picking up steam with developers around the web. So many great blog posts this week. Enjoy!
- Facets of Swift: Optionals, Tuples, Values and References
- NSHipster on Swift Documentation
- Mike Ash on Exploring Swift Memory Layout
- Swift - 53 Days Later
- Swift is a great first language for beginners
- Stacks & Queues in Swift
- Swift and Internal Access as Default
- Apple UI design is back home
- Objective-C Prefixes: A Thing of the Past?
- Working at being lazy
- Swift’s var is not Objective-C’s id
Other Cool Stuff
So the most exciting thing I did this weekend was create an official Swift Folder - thanks @carlosicaza for posting the png. Here are the instructions for changing your folder icon (didn't even know this was possible!). Isn't it beautiful?
Swift Blog
Swift Code
These just keep getting cooler and cooler!
- PKHUD - A Swift based reimplementation of the Apple HUD (Volume, Ringer, Rotation,…) for iOS 8.
- HGWActivityButton - A UIButton subclass with a custom, built-in activity indicator
- CharacterText - UILabel subclass to perform text effects
- AHKBendableView - UIView subclass that bends its edges when its position changes.
- SwiftSingleton - An exploration of the Singleton pattern in Swift
- Snappy - A light-weight layout framework which wraps AutoLayout with a nicer syntax
Swift Thoughts
I love seeing the excitement around Swift growing stronger on a daily basis. So many new leaders, new meetups, new libraries, new blog posts. Less than 2 months after WWDC14, there is a huge community forming around Swift. It really is a magical time to be an iOS developer.
Most importantly, I love seeing Apple really opening up to let Swift take off. A few months ago, could you have imagined that Apple would open up their WWDC Videos to the public, provide the XCode Beta download for non-Apple developers, release a constantly updated book, and have a Blog? Incredible!
With that note, here are all the exciting things happening in Swift this week: