Swifty? Emerging patterns and idioms

Last Tuesday I gave a talk at Swift London called Swifty? looking at interesting patterns emerging from the community, as well as how Swift 3 will shape idiomatic code.

You can see my slides on Speaker Deck.

The talk covered several topics, so I thought I’d link to some examples for those who want to learn more.

• Phantom types
  • Functional Snippet #13: Phantom Types from objc.io
  • Swift: Money with Phantom Types from Natasha The Robot
• Namespaces
  • Namespaced constants in Swift from Jesse Squires
  • Swift: The 😎 Case of An Enum With No Cases from Natasha again
  • Easy Namespacing In Swift from Soroush Khanlou
• Mixins
  • Stateful mixins in Swift from yours truly
• Swift 3 evolution proposals
  • Mutability and Foundation Value Types
  • Scoped Access Level
  • Make non-escaping closures the default
  • Replace protocol<P1,P2> syntax with P1 & P2 syntax
  • Add sequence(first:next:) and sequence(state:next:) to the stdlib

There were also two great lightning talks:

• Writing Swift recounted Neil Kimmett’s recent experience with having a pull request accepted into the Swift repos
• Daniel Devesa’s Make Notifications Great Again! used Brexit to demonstrate all the things you can do with iOS notifications these days

The latter part of the evening was an impromptu panel hosted by Yvette Cook which was lots of fun! We finished up at the Crown and Shuttle pub where the beer and conversation flowed until late.

Thanks to Al Skipp and Yvette Cook for organising a great evening, and to the whole Swift London community for having me along.

Also, June panel discussion!

While I’m on the topic of Swift London, I was also pleased to be invited to the server side Swift and pre-WWDC panel discussion in June with Ian Partridge and Chris Bailey from IBM, plus Yvette Cook and Abizer Nasir.