Decoding JSON with Swift by Anat Gilboa

Bio: Anat is a software engineer at American Express, where she enjoys bringing the delight of Swift into the CoreMobile codebase daily. She is a Cocoa-turned-CocoaTouch developer with her initial start in localization automation tools. Prior to American Express, she studied Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Virginia, where she found her love for applying ML to Genre Classification. In her free time, Anat likes to slackline and play ultimate frisbee.

Abstract: As Swift's statically-typed characteristics prove to complicate the decoding of serialized objects, there are other characteristics that serve as interesting alternatives, like currying. In this talk, we will go through some of the functional aspects of Swift that make parsing JSON fun and exciting!

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