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The Tao of Swift
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(Feng Shui)
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Thus spake the master
programmer:
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The Tao of Programming
flows far away and returns
on the wind of morning.
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The Tao gave birth to
machine language.
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The assembler gave
birth to the compiler.
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Each language has its
purpose, however
humble.
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Welcome
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Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Xcode 6
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Playgrounds
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Should you use Swift?
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No.
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(well, not yet)
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Not (yet) ready for
primetime
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What is Swift?
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Modern
Safe
Fast
Interoperable
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http://www.marutisuzuki.com/swift.aspx
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http://www.scbroncos.com/
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http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamClubs/Clubs/Swifts.html
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http://www.swiftengineering.com/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:5.3.10TaylorSwiftByDavidShankbone.jpg
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jonathan_Swift_by_Charles_Jervas_detail.jpg
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http://swift-lang.org/main/
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Why Swift?
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Who made it?
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How does Swift
compare to others?
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https://leverich.github.io/swiftislikescala/
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http://realm.io/news/swift-for-javascript-developers/
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http://pietschsoft.com/post/2014/06/07/Basic-Comparison-of-C-and-Apple-Swift-Programming-Language-Syntax
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http://www.haskell.org/
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Major Features
Strong typing
Type inference
Closures
Optionals / Nullables
Generics
Custom operators
Tuples
Interoperable
Changes every week
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Interoperability
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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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Is Swift a Functional
Language™®©?
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Sorta.
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Cocoa is the new
Carbon
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Built for Speed
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Demos
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(finally!)
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… 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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Tool Support
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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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Bad Karma
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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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More Information
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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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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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Weekly Newsletters
Natasha the Robot http://natashatherobot.com/
Swift Dev Weekly http://swiftdevweekly.com/
iOS Dev Weekly http://iosdevweekly.com/
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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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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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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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Books
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Upcoming Books
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More Books
jamesonquave.com/swiftebook raywenderlich.com/store/swift-tutorials-bundle
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Classics
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Thus spake the master
programmer:
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It is time for you to
leave.
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Thanks!
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Questions?
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Credits
The Tao of Programming
http://canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-
programming.html
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