Panel:

• Gui Rambo
• Andrew Madsen
• Erica Sadun
• Jaim Zuber

Special Guest: Andrew McKnight

In today's episode, the iPheaks panelist speak with Andrew McKnight about Surveying How Swift Evolves. Andrew provides information on a presentation he did at iOS Dev Camp Colorado, on a survey looking at the open source Swift repositories to see how developers are extending the language, foundation, or standard library. This is a great episode to gain insight into how developers on the iOS platform are helping evolve the Swift language and much more.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• What was being surveyed? - Utility Libraries and general purpose
• How did you search for Utility Libraries?
• What is the purpose of the utility libraries?
• Duplicate extensions
• What are the most popular extensions that are recreated?
• String and Trim
• What is trim()?
• Why is targeting utility libraries problematic?
• What is the goal?
• Did you find wrong or dangerous implementations?
• Why is their discussion/drama around gathering these extensions?
• Would these be good topics to file Radars?
• Brisk - https://github.com/br1sk/brisk
• What is it like entering the Swift Evolution Process?
• Can a community-driven proposal gain traction?
• Did you look into custom types like Result<T>?
• And much much more!

Links:

• https://forums.swift.org/t/surveying-how-swift-evolves/12726
• https://github.com/armcknight
• http://armcknight.com/
• https://medium.com/@ndrewmcknight/has-recommended
• @ndrewmcknight
• Chris Lattner
• Ted Kremenek

Picks:

Gui

• Daily WTF
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Erica

• Live Lava Feeds
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtihmXFWqGo

Andrew

• Antibiotics
• Tic-80 Tiny Computer

Jaim

• Black Mirror

Andrew McKnight

• Public Extension mailing list