swift

I'm excited about Swift for reasons I will expand upon later, but it's mostly the enthusiasm it has attracted. In less than six months, here are the project's GitHub stats. I know GitHub stats aren't always indicative of anything, but still, these numbers are impressive. Last week I presented a talk at the fantastic MDevCon in Amsterdam on the past, present and future of Swift. Despite some technical issues, it was well received and seemed like a good topic to turn into an article, so here it...

I was on holiday last week, so of course have been busy. People staying, two parties in our house, tourist stuff, and some work. My Wife has also been in Hospital the past two weeks and then left straight for a trip to the US, compounding how much I had on my plate.

Chris Ward looks at the Swift Package Manager, an early-days dependency management utility for Swift.

A video about new features and improvements in AppCode 2016.2 is here!

Swift Playgrounds from Apple is a slick integrated coding education tool — how far does go it to teach one of the hottest languages of the past 5 years?