Debug is a casual, conversational interview show featuring the best developers in the business about the amazing apps they make and why and how they make them. On this episode Natalia Berdys of Foodo Kitchen, Don Melton, former director of internet technology at Apple, and Brent Simmons of Vesper join Guy and Rene to talk about Swift, its future, Sprite Kit, and more!
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Show notes
- Swift Blog
- Swift in Flux
- Pedal to the Metal: Inside Apple's new graphics technology
- iOS 8 explained
- Inessential
- The Record
Panel
- Natalia Berdys of TUTU LAB
- Don Melton of donmelton.com
- Brent Simmons of Vesper
- Guy English of Kicking Bear
- Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations
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Reader comments
Debug 42: Swift roundtable
Keep up the good work Rene! I'm not a dev and I loved this episode!
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Thank you!
I wasn't able to find Robin Kristopherson's talk from Mobile Mobile Conf. Does anyone have a link?
Robin Christopherson's brilliant talk can be viewed here: http://vimeo.com/68964831
Thanks very much!
Well done Rene. Good group you pulled together on this one. Great to hear more discussion on accessibility/inclusivity. Can you also include the Medium link for Swift articles?
+1 show notes we somewhat lacking :(
The main objection the panel had to open sourcing Swift was that there would be "so many forks". This is baseless, and hearing the panel resort to ad hominems rather than discuss the point was disappointing.
First, if there were, why would that be a bad thing? Apple could (and no doubt would) ignore 99% of the activity. If that 1% could yield improvements from outside, e.g. Cydia developer hired for Notification Center, or even more recently the changes in Swift arrays, why on earth not?
Secondly, there would not be. As somebody (Guy?) points out not 3 minutes later, and completely unaware of the contradiction, there are virtually no forks of obj-c because Apple owns and does not open the runtime.
Since Swift requires the same runtime, there is no reason to believe a horde of "communists" would rush to fork a new language in ways they cannot use any more than they forked the old one. The only people who would bother would be those with a deep academic interest in language design - precisely those people who might contribute something of use.
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Having programmed the Mac since 1988 (and Amiga before that), and as a cross-platform developer now, I really enjoy the tech talk, especially the historical stuff.
But you guys have to get over your hatred/fear of C++. In my industry, which is heavily performance-focused, templates and operator overloading are extremely useful and powerful. We're not ALL shooting ourselves in the feet, guys!
Been a listener for a year now, one of the best shows you guys have ever done! Congrats
Just listened to this after hearing the plug on MacBreak Weekly... Absolutely loved it! Fantastic stuff!
I've been saying ever since I started using Obj-C (in 1989) that I'd switch when I saw something better. Java wasn't it, Python and Ruby have their merits, but they didn't offer enough to shift me from Obj-C. Swift finally IS it.
-jcr
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