A few weeks ago there was an extended discussion on the future of Objective-C and I linked to a couple of different stories on it. This week Jason Brennan posted a follow up to his original article. He argues that we're not thinking big enough by just considering a replacement for Objective-C and that we need to think of a bigger picture on how we build software in a more modern way. It's a lengthy article but certainly one worth reading, and looking back on in 5 years.
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If you use UserDefaults in an app
Isn’t that … every app? If this applies to you then Craig Hockenberry has something you’ll want to read before you next upload a release to the App Store.
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There was a trio of Swift concurrency posts this week and since it’s such a hot topic at the moment, you get all three here. First up, and the link above, is Matt Massicotte on isolation. Next is Joannis Orlandos on shared mutable state, and finally SwiftUI Views and MainActor from fatbobman. Enjoy!