Fixing the Swift Tooling Problem

A common refrain about Swift is that the language is great!... but the the tooling hinders it from living up to its potential.

In this talk, I stress that as Swift developers, we don't have to wait for Apple to improve the tooling (though that would be nice). We can, and should, do it ourselves.

Source: https://github.com/jpsim/talks/tree/master/fixing_the_swift_tooling_problem

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1. Fixing&the
   Swi$%Tooling
   Problem
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8. What's'the'Problem?
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9. Tangible)Problems
   • Missing'Tools
   • Incomplete'Tools
   • Buggy'Tools
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10. Apple%is%very%private.
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11. Apple%is%too%private.
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12. Apple%releases%new%tools%yearly.
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13. Apple%is%focused%on%different%things.
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14. "Only&Apple&can&do&this"
    –"The"Lazy"Developer
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16. What%do%other%communi/es%do?
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17. A:#Mix#of#vendor.provided#
    tools#and#community#
    projects
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18. What's'Missing'in'Swi.?
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19. Lots!
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20. What%Tools%are%Missing%in%Swi2?
    • Package(Manager
    • Refactoring(Tools
    • Automa7c(Code(Style(Detec7on(&(Enforcement
    • Documenta7on(Generator
    • Version(Manager
    • Fuzzy(Tes7ng
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21. Thanks'{$COMMUNITY}!
    • Package(Manager((CocoaPods(&(Carthage)
    • Refactoring(Tools((AppCode)
    • Automa:c(Code(Style(Detec:on(&(Enforcement(
    (Swi2Lint)
    • Documenta:on(Generator((jazzy)
    • Version(Manager((chswi2)
    • Fuzzy(Tes:ng((Swi2Check)
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22. Opportuni)es
    • Code&Genera+on&(???)
    • Test&Coverage&Genera+on&(???)
    • Sta+c&Code&Analysis&(???)
    • Instrumenta+on&(???)
    • LLVM&IR&Manipula+on&(???)
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23. How$can$we$add$it$back$in?
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24. Lots
    of#Reverse#Engineering
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25. Hopper.app
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26. class%dump
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27. Xcode&Plugins
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28. Clang
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29. SourceKit
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30. AppCode
    Supported)Plugin)Architecture
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31. Apple's'No
    Different
    Than%Us!
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32. well...
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33. Risk
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36. We#can#help#Apple
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39. What%The
    Community
    Has$Done
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43. Carthage
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44. SourceKi)en
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47. Swi$Lint
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49. Leverage'the'community
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50. Resources((1/2)
    • Swi%&Compiler&Crashes:&github.com/prac9calswi%/
    swi%:compiler:crashes
    • Carthage:&github.com/Carthage/Carthage
    • CocoaPods:&cocoapods.org
    • Swi%Check:&github.com/typeli%/Swi%Check
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51. Resources((2/2)
    • AppCode:)jetbrains.com/objc
    • chswi8:)github.com/neonichu/chswi8
    • Swi8Doc:)swi8doc.org
    • jazzy:)github.com/realm/jazzy
    • Swi8Lint:)github.com/realm/Swi8Lint
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52. Go#Forth
    and
    Build!
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53. UIKonf().questions.ask()!
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