Swift

Presentation about the Swift programming language by Apple, given in Zurich, September 9th 2014.

The demos are available here:
https://github.com/akosma/Swift-Presentation

Speech: https://akos.ma/blog/the-tao-of-swift/

Transcript

1. The Tao of Swift
   

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2. (Feng Shui)
   

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3. Thus spake the master
   programmer:
   

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4. The Tao of Programming
   flows far away and returns
   on the wind of morning.
   

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5. The Tao gave birth to
   machine language.
   

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7. The assembler gave
   birth to the compiler.
   

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9. Each language has its
   purpose, however
   humble.
   

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13. Welcome
    

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14. Adrian Kosmaczewski
    

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16. Xcode 6
    

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19. Playgrounds
    

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24. Should you use Swift?
    

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25. No.
    !
    (well, not yet)
    

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26. Not (yet) ready for
    primetime
    

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29. What is Swift?
    

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30. Modern
    Safe
    Fast
    Interoperable
    

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37. http://www.marutisuzuki.com/swift.aspx
    

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38. http://www.scbroncos.com/
    

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39. http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamClubs/Clubs/Swifts.html
    

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40. http://www.swiftengineering.com/
    

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41. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:5.3.10TaylorSwiftByDavidShankbone.jpg
    

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42. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jonathan_Swift_by_Charles_Jervas_detail.jpg
    

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43. http://swift-lang.org/main/
    

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47. Why Swift?
    

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51. Who made it?
    

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58. How does Swift
    compare to others?
    

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60. https://leverich.github.io/swiftislikescala/
    

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61. http://realm.io/news/swift-for-javascript-developers/
    

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62. http://pietschsoft.com/post/2014/06/07/Basic-Comparison-of-C-and-Apple-Swift-Programming-Language-Syntax
    

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63. http://www.haskell.org/
    

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68. Major Features
    Strong typing
    Type inference
    Closures
    Optionals / Nullables
    Generics
    Custom operators
    Tuples
    Interoperable
    Changes every week
    

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69. Interoperability
    

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71. Not Available in Obj-C
    Generics
    Tuples
    Enumerations
    Structures
    Top-level functions
    Global variables
    Typealiases
    Swift-style variadics
    Nested types
    Curried functions
    

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72. Is Swift a Functional
    Language™®©?
    

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73. Sorta.
    

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74. Cocoa is the new
    Carbon
    

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75. Built for Speed
    

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78. Demos
    !
    (finally!)
    

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79. … and much more
    Standard library
    WillSet / DidSet in setters
    Memory management in
    closures
    Convenience initializers
    Lazy properties
    Nesting of classes, enums and
    structs
    Pattern matching in `switch`
    statements
    reStructuredText
    documentation headers
    Default parameter values in
    functions
    Monads, futures, promises and
    other functional programming
    constructions
    Nested comments
    

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80. Tool Support
    

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82. Editor Support
    Sublime Text http://www.sublimetext.com/
    AppCode http://www.jetbrains.com/objc/
    TextMate https://github.com/textmate/textmate
    Textastic http://www.textasticapp.com/
    SimpleEdit http://simpleeditapp.com/
    PaintCode http://www.paintcodeapp.com/
    Vim http://www.vim.org/
    

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85. Bad Karma
    

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86. Lack of “const correctness” / not completely
    functional
    Almost no docs about the standard library
    Lack of extensive dynamic type information
    Changes every week (well, almost.)
    

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87. More Information
    

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88. Blogs (1/2)
    Apple https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/
    Erica Sadun http://ericasadun.com/
    Mattt Thompson http://swifthipster.com/!
    Mike Ash https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/
    

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89. Blogs (2/2)
    Airspeed Velocity http://airspeedvelocity.net/
    Alexandros Salazar http://nomothetis.svbtle.com/
    David J Peacock http://davidjpeacock.ca/
    sketchyTech http://sketchytech.blogspot.com/
    Swift Studies http://www.swift-studies.com/
    

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90. Weekly Newsletters
    Natasha the Robot http://natashatherobot.com/
    Swift Dev Weekly http://swiftdevweekly.com/
    iOS Dev Weekly http://iosdevweekly.com/
    

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91. Code
    FlappySwift https://github.com/jurvis/FlappySwift
    Alamofire https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire
    Swiftz https://github.com/maxpow4h/swiftz
    Dollar https://github.com/ankurp/Dollar.swift
    Quick BDD https://github.com/Quick/Quick
    

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92. Other Platforms
    RemObjects Silver 

    http://www.remobjects.com/elements/silver/
    Swift-X http://swift-x.org/
    Swift on your browser http://swiftstub.com/
    

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93. Quick Help
    GitHub 

    https://github.com/github/swift-style-guide
    Cheatsheet 

    http://www.raywenderlich.com/73967/swift-cheat-sheet-
    and-quick-reference
    Closure Syntax

    http://fuckingclosuresyntax.com/
    Playground Builder

    http://jasonsandmeyer.com/playgrounds/
    

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94. Books
    

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95. Upcoming Books
    

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96. More Books
    jamesonquave.com/swiftebook raywenderlich.com/store/swift-tutorials-bundle
    

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97. Classics
    

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98. Thus spake the master
    programmer:
    

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99. It is time for you to
    leave.
    

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100. Thanks!
     

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101. Questions?
     

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102. Credits
     The Tao of Programming

     http://canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-
     programming.html
     People I follow on Twitter
     

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