50: “Swift’s past, present and future”, with special guest Chris Lattner

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50: “Swift’s past, present and future”, with special guest Chris Lattner

FromSwift by Sundell

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81 minutes

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Jun 20, 2019

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Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, joins John on this 50th episode of the
show — to discuss the current state of Swift and how it came to be, as well
as to speculate about what the future of the language and its ecosystem
might look like.

Released:

Jun 20, 2019

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Titles in the series (100)

In-depth conversations about Swift and software development in general, hosted by John Sundell.

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1: "Hello world": The first episode of the show! John gives an introduction and answers the first questions. by Swift by Sundell
36 min listen
9: "The answer is YES", with special guest Paul Hudson: Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift joins John to talk about learning & teaching Swift, Storyboards vs XIBs vs code, game development, Swift on the server and much more. by Swift by Sundell
46 min listen
21: "The sweeter Mac app", with special guest Benedikt Terhechte: Benedikt Terhechte joins John to talk about Mac development, working as an indie developer, code sharing between Apple's platforms, extending the standard library, system packages, and much more. by Swift by Sundell
59 min listen
6: "Somewhere between the view and the model", with special guest Agnes Vasarhelyi: Agnes Vasarhelyi of Topology Eyewear joins John to talk about moving to San Francisco, AR, architecture, getting started with iOS development and much more. by Swift by Sundell
48 min listen
3: "Talking with the server it's supposed to", with special guests Anastasiia Voitova & Marcin Krzyzanowski: Anastasiia Voitova & Marcin Krzyzanowski join John to answer questions about security & encryption in Swift. by Swift by Sundell
47 min listen
7: "Spelunking the firmware", with special guest Gui Rambo: Gui Rambo joins John to talk about reverse engineering, finding product details in leaked Apple firmware & SDKs, getting started with Mac development & open source, and much more. by Swift by Sundell
48 min listen
8: "Time traveling is always cool", with special guests Marin Todorov & Florent Pillet: Marin Todorov and Florent Pillet, two of the four authors of Ray Wenderlich's RxSwift book, join John to talk about Rx, reactive programming, debugging, learning new technologies and much more. by Swift by Sundell
49 min listen
15: “My interpretation of functional programming”, with special guest Chris Eidhof: Chris Eidhof, founder of objc.io and co-host of Swift Talk, joins John to talk about app architecture, functional programming, the "rockstar developer culture", picking database solutions and much more! by Swift by Sundell
52 min listen
27: "Exponential open source effect", with special guest Ryan Nystrom: Ryan Nystrom of Instagram joins John to talk about data-driven UI development, working on open source, how to optimize performance, becoming an engineering manager and much more. by Swift by Sundell
74 min listen
22: "A path for learning", with special guest Meghan Kane: Meghan Kane joins John for a special Machine Learning episode of the show - talking about how to get started with tools like CoreML and TensorFlow, what they can be used for, deciphering the terminology, how Swift might be used for ML tooling in the future, and much more! by Swift by Sundell
60 min listen
31: "Code signing, but for APIs", with special guest Felix Krause: Felix Krause, creator of fastlane, joins John to talk about building developer tools, scaling open source projects, automation, code signing, how fastlane came to be, and how to take the perfect Twitter profile picture. by Swift by Sundell
82 min listen
26: "Bootstrap our way there", with special guest David Hart: David Hart, regular contributor to the Swift Package Manager, joins John to discuss the present and future of the SwiftPM project - how to get started both using and contributing to it, and how it lets the community build tools on top of it. by Swift by Sundell
60 min listen
10: “Boy, I have a lot of thoughts on this”, with special guest Soroush Khanlou: Soroush Khanlou joins John to talk about blogging, MVVM and other iOS architecture patterns, unit testing, new features in iOS 11 & Xcode 9 and much more. by Swift by Sundell
49 min listen
11: "Don't use this for evil", with special guest Mike Ash: Mike Ash joins John to talk about reference counting, learning new APIs, Swift tooling vs new language features, what if Swift would've been Objective-C 3.0 and much more. by Swift by Sundell
47 min listen
25: "Segue into Marzipan", with special guest Ben Scheirman: Ben Scheirman, creator of NSScreencast, joins John for a special WWDC episode of the show - to talk about the cool new things that Apple announced at the conference. iOS 12's focus on performance, UIKit apps on the Mac, what's new in Xcode and Swift 4.2, and much more. by Swift by Sundell
74 min listen
16: "Better than accessible", with special guest Sommer Panage: Sommer Panage joins John to talk about all things accessibility, adaptive UIs, learning new APIs, UI testing, her secret (well, not so secret) life as a circus artist, and much more. by Swift by Sundell
51 min listen
5: “Escape into the open source world”, with special guest Louis D'hauwe: Louis D'hauwe joins John to answer questions about architecture, UI design, compilers, creating a programming language and much more. by Swift by Sundell
48 min listen
13: "My DNA is on GitHub", with special guest Orta Therox: Orta Therox from Artsy joins John to talk about building developer tools, working on and maintaining open source projects, React Native, balancing coding time with personal time and much more. by Swift by Sundell
50 min listen
19: "Proposal tour", with special guest Erica Sadun: Erica Sadun joins John to talk about Swift Evolution and its proposal process, civility in the community, the state of Apple's developer tools, protocol extensions, Swift Foundation vs Objective-C Foundation and much more. by Swift by Sundell
54 min listen
2: “It’s a lot like cleaning your house”, with special guest Roy Marmelstein: Roy Marmelstein from Spotify joins John to answer questions about getting started with open source, expressive code, working in a large development team, using RxSwift at scale and more. by Swift by Sundell
40 min listen
4: "Fake Canadian", with special guest Ash Furrow: Ash Furrow from Artsy joins John to answer questions about being inspired by other languages, asynchronous programming, doing test driven development and much more. by Swift by Sundell
49 min listen
17: "Squirrel Syndrome", with special guest Janie Clayton: Janie Clayton, author of the Metal Programming Guide, joins John to talk about Metal, GPU & graphics programming, shaders, when to dive into lower levels of abstraction, and much more. by Swift by Sundell
48 min listen
20: "A dependency injection kind of guy", with special guest Radek Pietruszewski: Radek Pietruszewski, software writer at Nozbe and creator of SwiftyUserDefaults, joins John to talk about developer seniority, being inspired by the React paradigm, singletons & dependency injection, micro features and much more. by Swift by Sundell
56 min listen
30: "Do you wanna be my mentee?", with special guest Sean Allen: Sean Allen, YouTuber and host of Swift News, joins John to talk about sharing, creating content for the Swift community, mentoring and giving feedback, teaching new technologies, interviewing and much more. by Swift by Sundell
71 min listen
34: "Pure functions", with special guests Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis: Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis, formerly iOS developers at Kickstarter and now hosts of Point-Free, join John to talk about functional programming in Swift, and how it can be used to build apps, websites, and even control the world. by Swift by Sundell
82 min listen
32: "Rapid fire interviews", with special guests Alek, Vixentael, Janina & JP: John heads to the Swift & Fika conference in Stockholm and, equipped with his portable recorder, speaks to four special guests about a wide range of topics. by Swift by Sundell
50 min listen
23: "Epic compiler quest", with special guests Harlan Haskins and Robert Widmann: Harlan Haskins and Robert Widmann - who are both regular contributors to the Swift compiler - join John to take a deep dive into the internals of Swift, its type system, the compilation process and how they used LLVM to build their own programming language. by Swift by Sundell
62 min listen
14: "Holiday Special", with special guests Tobias Due Munk, Nataliya Patsovska & Patrick Balestra: Tobias Due Munk, creator of Slør, Nataliya Patsovska from iZettle and Patrick Balestra, co-organizer of the Swift Alps & AppBuilders conferences, join John on this special holiday episode of the show! by Swift by Sundell
54 min listen
41: “The ultimate small company”, with special guest Dave Verwer: Dave Verwer joins John to take a look behind the scenes of the iOS Dev Weekly newsletter, to talk about working as an indie and how to increase your chances of success as an indie creator or developer, juggling multiple projects, as well as iOS development trends. by Swift by Sundell
83 min listen
29: "Flexing your learning muscle", with special guest Niels van Hoorn: Niels van Hoorn of Framer joins John to talk about prototyping, experimentation and learning new technologies. When and how to use prototypes, trying out new frameworks and techniques, the value of building your own tools and much more. by Swift by Sundell
59 min listen

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123: “The evolution of Swift”, with special guest Nick Lockwood: On this final episode of 2022, Nick Lockwood returns to the show to discuss the overall evolution of Swift and its ecosystem of tools and libraries. How has Swift changed since its original introduction in 2014, how does it compare to other modern programming languages, and how might the language continue to evolve in 2023 and beyond? by Swift by Sundell
63 min listen
122: “Swift concurrency in practice”, with special guest Ben Scheirman: Ben Scheirman returns to the show to discuss how Swift’s built-in concurrency features, such as async/await and tasks, can be used in practice when building apps for Apple’s platforms. by Swift by Sundell
64 min listen
121: “Responsive and smooth UIs”, with special guest Adam Bell: Adam Bell returns to the podcast to discuss different techniques and approaches for optimizing UI code, and how to utilize tools like animations in order to build iOS apps that feel fast and responsive. by Swift by Sundell
70 min listen
120: “Freelancing and WWDC22 highlights”, with special guest Donny Wals: Donny Wals returns to the show to talk about being an iOS developer freelancer, and to discuss some of the key new APIs, Swift language features, and frameworks that were introduced at WWDC22. by Swift by Sundell
54 min listen
119: “The role of system design”, with special guest Gui Rambo: Gui Rambo returns to the show to talk about the role and importance of system design when building apps and open source tools, and how common app architectures and design patterns can be augmented with custom systems. by Swift by Sundell
76 min listen
118: “What’s new in SwiftUI in iOS 16?”, with special guest Natalia Panferova: Natalia Panferova joins John to discuss some of the key new features that are coming to SwiftUI and UIKit in iOS 16, and to talk about her experience working on SwiftUI at Apple. by Swift by Sundell
68 min listen
117: “Swift 5.7, generics, and the road to Swift 6”, with special guest Ben Cohen: Ben Cohen, manager of the Swift team at Apple, joins John on this WWDC22 special to discuss Swift 5.7, how generics have been made more powerful and easy to use, and how the language is expected to evolve towards Swift 6. by Swift by Sundell
68 min listen
116: “The evolution of SwiftUI”, with special guest Chris Eidhof: Chris Eidhof returns to the podcast to talk about how SwiftUI has evolved since its initial release, to share several key learnings from using it over the past few years, and to discuss concepts like app architecture and state management. by Swift by Sundell
65 min listen
115: “A framework and an app”, with special guest Simon Støvring: Simon Støvring returns to the show to talk about how he built his new text editor Runestone, how to effectively manage an app’s settings, performance tuning, and implementing an app’s core logic as a stand-alone framework. by Swift by Sundell
68 min listen
114: “Accessibility on Apple’s platforms”, with special guest Sommer Panage: Sommer Panage returns to the show to discuss Apple’s various accessibility APIs and tools, how to incorporate accessibility support into a team’s overall development workflow, and what it was like being an engineering manager at Apple. by Swift by Sundell
72 min listen
113: “Where is Swift headed in 2022?”, with special guest JP Simard: On this 2022 season premiere, JP Simard returns to the show to discuss what’s next for Swift in 2022, and what kinds of improvements and new features that might be coming to the language during the year. by Swift by Sundell
69 min listen
112: “The 2021 Season Finale”: To wrap up the 2021 season of the show, John revisits some of the key themes and topics that were discussed both on the show itself, and within the Swift community in general, throughout the year. by Swift by Sundell
52 min listen
111: “Custom rendering”, with special guest James Thomson: James Thomson returns to the show to discuss the various technologies that enable us to render custom UIs on Apple’s platforms. From rendering views using Core Graphics and Core Animation, to building completely custom 3D-based UIs using SceneKit and RealityKit. by Swift by Sundell
55 min listen
110: “Concurrency beyond app development”, with special guest Tim Condon: Tim Condon joins John to discuss how both client and server-side Swift developers could utilize the new built-in concurrency system, as well as how distributed actors and other upcoming language features might continue to make Swift even more capable on the server. by Swift by Sundell
61 min listen
109: “Code maintenance”, with special guest Nick Lockwood: Nick Lockwood joins John for a discussion about maintaining Swift code bases — from open source projects, to ones worked on by teams of various sizes. Also, the design of ShapeScript, using async/await within unit tests, and much more. by Swift by Sundell
70 min listen
108: “Concurrency and Swift-DocC”, with special guest Marin Todorov: Marin Todorov returns to the podcast to discuss Swift’s new concurrency system and its newly announced backward compatibility, his new book about that topic, and his work on Apple’s open source documentation tool, Swift-DocC. by Swift by Sundell
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107: “UIKit in 2021”, with special guest Ben Scheirman: Ben Scheirman returns to the show to talk about modern UIKit-based app development, how UIKit has evolved over the past few years, and how its API design and usage has been influenced by the introduction of frameworks like SwiftUI and Combine. by Swift by Sundell
69 min listen
106: “Opportunities for optimization”, with special guest Christian Selig: Christian Selig returns to the show to talk about how he used the new Safari extension system on iOS to build Amplosion and Achoo, the pros and cons of open source, and how developers can utilize other iOS 15 and iPhone hardware features. by Swift by Sundell
69 min listen
105: “Building various kinds of editors”, with special guest Marcin Krzyzanowski: Marcin Krzyzanowski returns to the show to talk about building editors for Swift code, backend-driven user interfaces, and more. Also, the challenges of working with text-based data, the pros and cons of composition, and managing hobby projects. by Swift by Sundell
54 min listen
104: “The magic of Augmented Reality”, with special guest Roxana Jula: Roxana Jula joins John to discuss Apple’s various tools, frameworks, and APIs for building Augmented Reality experiences. How to get started building AR-based apps, what’s the current state of AR on Apple’s platforms, and how might that change if Apple were to introduce dedicated AR hardware in the future? by Swift by Sundell
64 min listen
103: “What’s new in Swift 5.5”, with special guest Antoine van der Lee: Antoine van der Lee, creator of SwiftLee, joins John to discuss the new language features that are being introduced as part of Swift 5.5 — from the brand new concurrency system, to convenience features and various improvements. by Swift by Sundell
72 min listen
102: “WWDC21, two months later”, with special guest Jordan Morgan: Jordan Morgan returns to the show to discuss some of the key new APIs and frameworks that were announced at WWDC21, and how they can be integrated into the apps that we build, now that about two months have passed since the conference took place. by Swift by Sundell
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101: “Cross-platform SwiftUI”, with special guest Malin Sundberg: Malin Sundberg joins John to talk about her experiences of using SwiftUI to build and ship the time-tracking and invoicing app Orbit on most of Apple’s platforms, and what sort of things that can be good to keep in mind when using SwiftUI in a cross-platform context. by Swift by Sundell
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100: “A tower of capabilities”, with special guest Chris Lattner: Chris Lattner returns to the show to discuss Swift’s new concurrency features, the ongoing evolution of the language, and the importance of both language and API design. This, and much more, on this special 100th episode of the show. by Swift by Sundell
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99: “Structured concurrency”, with special guest Doug Gregor: Doug Gregor from Apple joins John to discuss Swift 5.5’s new concurrency features in great detail. How do features like async/await and actors work under the hood, and how were those concepts adapted in order to feel right at home within Swift’s existing ecosystem? That, and much more, on this WWDC21 special episode of the show. by Swift by Sundell
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98: “An entire spectrum of apps”, with special guest Sean Allen: Sean Allen returns to the show to talk about using the MVVM design pattern within SwiftUI-based apps, building a course around MapKit and CloudKit, how to approach all of the new material that WWDC has to offer, and what goes into making a really great developer portfolio. by Swift by Sundell
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97: “Anything can happen during WWDC”, with special guest Ish ShaBazz: Ish ShaBazz returns to the show for a special pre-WWDC episode about what new APIs and developer tools that Apple might announce at this year’s edition of the conference. What’s in store for Swift and SwiftPM, how might UIKit and SwiftUI continue to evolve, and will this be the year when we’ll finally see Apple’s new AR/VR platform? by Swift by Sundell
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96: “Gesture-driven animations”, with special guest Adam Bell: Adam Bell returns to the show to talk about animations, both how to make great use of the built-in animation tools that the iOS SDK ships with, but also how to drive custom, gesture-driven animation logic and the sort of performance optimizations that are typically required when writing that sort of code. by Swift by Sundell
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95: “Concurrency orchestration”, with special guest Brent Simmons: Brent Simmons returns to the show to discuss multi-threading and concurrency, and how to make good use of tools like Grand Central Dispatch. Also, building NetNewsWire in the open, the current state of SwiftUI, and the type of responsibilities that senior developers typically have. by Swift by Sundell
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94: “A Mac-like Mac app”, with special guest Benedikt Terhechte: Benedikt Terhechte returns to the show to discuss the pros and cons of using technologies like Catalyst and SwiftUI to build Mac apps, and also to share tips and tricks on how to use AppKit for use cases that Apple’s more modern frameworks do not yet support. by Swift by Sundell
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50: “Swift’s past, present and future”, with special guest Chris Lattner

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