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
2. (Feng Shui)
3. Thus spake the master programmer:
4. The Tao of Programming flows far away and returns on the wind of morning.
5. The Tao gave birth to machine language.
7. The assembler gave birth to the compiler.
9. Each language has its purpose, however humble.
13. Welcome
14. Adrian Kosmaczewski
16. Xcode 6
19. Playgrounds
24. Should you use Swift?
25. No. ! (well, not yet)
26. Not (yet) ready for primetime
29. What is Swift?
30. Modern Safe Fast Interoperable
37. http://www.marutisuzuki.com/swift.aspx
38. http://www.scbroncos.com/
39. http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamClubs/Clubs/Swifts.html
40. http://www.swiftengineering.com/
41. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:5.3.10TaylorSwiftByDavidShankbone.jpg
42. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jonathan_Swift_by_Charles_Jervas_detail.jpg
43. http://swift-lang.org/main/
47. Why Swift?
51. Who made it?
58. How does Swift compare to others?
60. https://leverich.github.io/swiftislikescala/
61. http://realm.io/news/swift-for-javascript-developers/
62. http://pietschsoft.com/post/2014/06/07/Basic-Comparison-of-C-and-Apple-Swift-Programming-Language-Syntax
63. http://www.haskell.org/
68. Major Features Strong typing Type inference Closures Optionals / Nullables Generics Custom operators Tuples Interoperable Changes every week
69. Interoperability
71. Not Available in Obj-C Generics Tuples Enumerations Structures Top-level functions Global variables Typealiases Swift-style variadics Nested types Curried functions
72. Is Swift a Functional Language™®©?
73. Sorta.
74. Cocoa is the new Carbon
75. Built for Speed
78. Demos ! (finally!)
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
80. Tool Support
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/
85. Bad Karma
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.)
87. More Information
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/
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/
90. Weekly Newsletters Natasha the Robot http://natashatherobot.com/ Swift Dev Weekly http://swiftdevweekly.com/ iOS Dev Weekly http://iosdevweekly.com/
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
92. Other Platforms RemObjects Silver 
 http://www.remobjects.com/elements/silver/ Swift-X http://swift-x.org/ Swift on your browser http://swiftstub.com/
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/
94. Books
95. Upcoming Books
96. More Books jamesonquave.com/swiftebook raywenderlich.com/store/swift-tutorials-bundle
97. Classics
98. Thus spake the master programmer:
99. It is time for you to leave.
100. Thanks!
101. Questions?
102. Credits The Tao of Programming
 http://canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of- programming.html People I follow on Twitter