It would be nearly a year since Swift was announced by Apple. It soon became the language of choice for many developers. It is one of the fastest adopted programming language till date. Not only that, it also has one of the largest repository of source code using Swift. Here’s a look at both sides […]
WWDC 2015 had some interesting announcements and the biggest and most applicable / important announcement is that Swift is now 2.0 and going to be Open Source and be available for Linux. Since swift can be used for REPL, it could be used as an alternative for writing and executing scripts (on Linux type distros). […]
In this article we are going to make a swift app for the Mac OSX. This will have no window but instead have a menu item that would be used for interacting with the application. This application shall also read a settings and alter the icon and menu according to the status of that setting
Apple Playgrounds are amazing and for those that are using it know how it works best for them. Some use it for algorithms, some for testing code, etc. One of the reasons that I think playgrounds is important is the integration. The integration of commentary and code that make it seem more like an interactive […]
In an earlier article, we discussed the possibility of adding a cout like functionality in Swift as seen in C++ (https://swift.oz-apps.com/2015/04/using-a-cout/). There were a couple of impediments that prevented the full functionality of our cout function. Let us revisit that and add chaining
If you learned a language, that was it, you did not have to re-learn the same. There could have been additions or extensions to the language but it would not have changed. Welcome to the future, nothing is constant and nothing is static. Though Swift is a production release, ie. you can use it in […]
This is work in progress and there are somethings that Swift cannot do where as Lua excels with them. Since everything in a Lua table is a reference or a pointer, you can recursively add table to refer to subtables. You could also store functions in the tables and invoke them based on the key. […]
Talking to a couple of developers over various mediums about Swift has had mixed results. However one thing that came up again and again was that it is a little confusing. While confusing in the literal sense would not be the correct word. So let me elaborate the issue first.
If you have worked with C++, you might be well aware of the cout function, it is one of the most commonly used functions with C++. That is simply because you can just use it so // cout << “Hello World” and it prints Hello World to the console. Well, using the println(“Hello World”) is […]
One thing that Swift does not do very well is dynamism. That is because of the fact that it is a type safe language. So if you were to create a class from a classname i.e. a String, you would get different types of classes depending on the class name. So having a single variable […]
