Swift Package Manager: What Is It, and Why Use It? Nate Swanner, November 21, 2019 9 min read For years, package management with Swift was accomplished with (often clumsy) CocoaPods or Carthage tooling. With...
Module Stability in Swift 5.1: Why It Matters Nate Swanner, October 15, 2019 4 min read Swift 5 brought us ABI stability, which is a major milestone in helping the language grow beyond Apple’s walled...
When It Comes to SwiftUI and Catalyst, the Roadmap Is Becoming Clear Nate Swanner, September 18, 2019 4 min read At WWDC 2019, Apple unveiled SwiftUI and Catalyst to the world. After months of tinkering, developers are starting to...
macOS Catalina Switches Default Shell From Bash to Zsh. But Why? Nate Swanner, June 12, 2019 4 min read When macOS 10.15 Catalina lands this Fall, it will have a new default shell in Zsh. Currently, macOS users have Bash...
Curious Why SwiftUI Uses the ‘$’ Prefix? Here’s What’s Going On. Nate Swanner, June 12, 2019 5 min read When SwiftUI launched at WWDC 2019, the Apple developer community was taken by surprise. Throughout the week, WWDC...
WWDC 2019: Xcode 11 is a Lot More Powerful With a Lot More Swift Nate Swanner, June 5, 2019 6 min read Xcode 11 launched in beta this week alongside the macOS 10.15 Catalina beta build. Xcode looks a bit fresher now, and...
WWDC 2019: SwiftUI, Apple’s Stab at Low-Code App Creation, is Pretty Neat Nate Swanner, June 4, 2019 5 min read One of Apple's latest announcements at WWDC 2019 is a big one for developers: With Xcode 11 (currently in beta, and...
Swift 5 Released with ABI Stability, Reducing App Size Across Platforms Nate Swanner, March 27, 2019 3 min read Swift 5, as expected, has been released ahead of WWDC 2019. Calling it a “major milestone in the evolution of the...
Swift Is Getting LSP Support in Future Release (It’s a Big Deal) Nate Swanner, November 29, 2018 4 min read Swift, the upstart language poised to cement itself amongst the most-used in the industry, will soon support the...
This Xcode for iPad App May Make You Appreciate the Mac Nate Swanner, June 19, 2018 3 min read For some reason, a segment of the iOS developer community would love to have Xcode (the IDE for macOS, iOS, and other...
