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

Transcript

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