Apple Beta Chaos 2019
Posted onWhat’s wrong (and not) about this year’s betas from Apple.…
Swift
Codable CoreData
Posted onSwift 4 [https://swift.org/blog/swift-4-0-released/], amongst other things, brought a way to serialize/deserialize data into/from model objects called Codable. Those changes were proposed under SE-0166 [https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0166-swift-archival-serialization.md] . I'm not going to elaborate on how Codable works since it's…
Swift 3
Posted onTogether with iOS 10, watchOS 3 and Xcode 8 Swift 3 made its way into the public. Of course there were betas of Xcode (and with it Swift 3) before the public release. And of course I was playing around with them, too. While more and more projects are converted…
Swift - A first deeper look
Posted ontl;dr; Swift is awesome, but there are still many bugs for Apple to fix. What is Swift? Swift is the new programming language Apple introduced at the last WWDC in 2014 alongside iOS 8. When I first heard about it a the keynote I was quite sceptic. Why? Because…