Posts Tagged “Language Design”

Swift Prospective Vision: Accessors (1)December 19, 2024
Swift Proposal: Precise Control Flags Over Compiler Warnings December 5, 2024
Swift Vision: Improving the Approachability of Data-Race Safety (9)November 25, 2024
Swift Concurrency Proposal Index (1)November 18, 2024
Thomas Kurtz, RIP November 14, 2024
Swift Proposal: Integer Generic Parameters November 6, 2024
Swift Concurrency and Objective-C (6)October 1, 2024
Swift 6 (19)September 19, 2024
Swift Imposter Syndrome Meme August 21, 2024
Swift’s AnyObject July 25, 2024
Swift 6 Announced (6)July 22, 2024
Swift Testing in Xcode 16 July 17, 2024
Swift at 10 (16)June 4, 2024
Dynamic Swift Predicates in macOS 14 and iOS 17 (3)May 28, 2024
Swift Proposal: Objective-C Implementations in Swift (1)May 10, 2024
Swift Proposal: Synchronous Mutual Exclusion Lock April 30, 2024
Swift for C++ Practitioners April 12, 2024
Run-time Polymorphism in Swift April 10, 2024
Noncopyable Generics Walkthrough (1)March 27, 2024
Swift 5.10 (1)March 6, 2024
Swift Tricks February 6, 2024
Pkl Programming Language (8)February 6, 2024
T? and Optional<T> Are Not the Same in Swift February 5, 2024
Swift Protocol Requirement Quirks January 17, 2024
Is Objective-C BOOL a Boolean Type? (1)January 9, 2024
Niklaus Wirth, RIP (3)January 4, 2024
Triggering Swift Property Observers From Initializers (5)December 20, 2023
Swift Proposal: Typed Throws November 28, 2023
Moving on From Xojo (4)November 27, 2023
Bike Outline Paths November 8, 2023
Swift Proposal: Pack Iteration (1)November 7, 2023
Swift 5.9 September 19, 2023
Objective-C Internals (1)August 10, 2023
Avoiding Implicit Retain Cycles When Using Swift Function References August 4, 2023
Swift Enum Pattern Matching With Extra Conditions (2)August 1, 2023
Macros in Swift 5.9 July 17, 2023
Zig Proposal to Drop LLVM (1)July 3, 2023
Swift Proposal: Init Accessors (2)June 16, 2023
The Rust I Wanted Had No Future June 8, 2023
Swift’s Upcoming Feature Flags June 7, 2023
A Vision for Using C++ From Swift June 2, 2023
Mojo Programming Language (6)May 4, 2023
C23 Standard Sets the World on Fire (2)April 13, 2023
Swift 5.8 April 3, 2023
Swift Proposal: Value and Type Parameter Packs March 24, 2023
Swift Atomics 1.1 March 22, 2023
Swift Proposal: Noncopyable Structs and Enums (4)March 22, 2023
Equality in Swift: NSObject, Subclasses, and Existentials March 17, 2023
Pattern Matching on Swift Error Codes March 13, 2023
Clascal in the Lisa Source Code (1)February 9, 2023
Swift Proposal: Custom Reflection Metadata February 8, 2023
Designing Swift’s Macros Feature February 3, 2023
Carl Hewitt, RIP January 6, 2023
Swift Pitch: Observation (1)December 16, 2022
C xor C++ Programming (2)December 16, 2022
Swift Pitch: Predicates December 13, 2022
The Verse Programming Language December 13, 2022
Swift Mutating Functions and Property Observers November 29, 2022
Introduction to Move-Only Types in Swift November 29, 2022
D2 Diagram Scripting Language (3)November 22, 2022
Swift Pitch: Reflection November 21, 2022
Swift Proposal: Function Back Deployment November 18, 2022
A Vision for Variadic Generics in Swift November 17, 2022
A Possible Vision for Macros in Swift October 17, 2022
Compiling Swift Generics October 17, 2022
Swift Was Always Going to Be Part of the OS October 10, 2022
Swift 5.7 September 12, 2022
Making the “The Swift Programming Language” Book Open Source (5)August 30, 2022
C23 Is Finished (2)August 19, 2022
Swift Pitch: “borrow” and “take” Parameter Ownership Modifiers August 12, 2022
Implementing Parts of the Swift Compiler in Swift August 9, 2022
Swift Tuple Overloads July 27, 2022
Swift Proposal: Move Function July 26, 2022
Confusing Swift Evaluation Order July 19, 2022
Swift 5.7 Announced June 17, 2022
Swift Regex June 10, 2022
Swift 5.6 Released March 16, 2022
Swift Type Checking Is Undecidable (1)February 28, 2022
Swift 5.6 Features in Xcode 13.3 Beta 3 February 22, 2022
Objective-C Messages to nil (4)February 22, 2022
Why Lattner Left the Swift Core Team (11)February 22, 2022
Roadmap for Improving Swift Performance Predictability (1)December 23, 2021
Abrahams on the Design of Swift (13)December 10, 2021
Luau Programming Language December 2, 2021
William Cook, RIP (5)December 2, 2021
Unicode and Copying and Pasting Code (4)November 19, 2021
Swift Declarative String Processing Pitch October 1, 2021
Swift 5.5 Released September 21, 2021
Lists of Swift Attributes August 4, 2021
Swift “guard” Capture Specifier Pitch August 4, 2021
Concurrency in Swift 5 and 6: Data Races (7)June 14, 2021
Swift Overloads That Differ Only in Async June 14, 2021
Constant Literals in Objective-C June 9, 2021
Fixing Swift’s “if let” Syntax (4)May 12, 2021
Swift Generics 2: Existentials Boogaloo (1)April 28, 2021
Swift 5.4 Released April 27, 2021
Swift Proposal: Actors (3)March 18, 2021
Be Careful With Obj-C Bridging in Swift (4)March 2, 2021
Swift for TensorFlow Canceled (12)February 16, 2021
The Evolution of “safe” and “unsafe” in Swift February 12, 2021
SwiftDtoa v2 February 4, 2021
LAMBDA: The Ultimate Excel Worksheet Function (5)February 3, 2021
Brad Cox, RIP (1)January 25, 2021
Swift AsyncSequence (2)January 20, 2021
Swift FilePath Syntactic Operations January 11, 2021
self in a Swift Self-executing Anonymous Closure December 23, 2020
Ruby 3 (1)December 21, 2020
PHP 8 (1)December 21, 2020
Swift Concurrency Interoperability With Objective-C December 11, 2020
Swift Proposal for async/await December 7, 2020
Does Swift Call the Protocol Extension or Subclass Implementation? (2)November 17, 2020
Slow Swift Compilation of Boolean Comparisons (9)November 6, 2020
Swift Concurrency Roadmap November 3, 2020
Swift Result Builders Accepted October 22, 2020
Rust After the Honeymoon October 12, 2020
Introducing Swift Atomics October 2, 2020
Swift 5.3 Released September 17, 2020
Objective-Rust August 27, 2020
Polymorphic Interfaces (1)July 23, 2020
Implicit Capturing of Self in Swift 5.3 July 13, 2020
as, as?, and as! in Swift June 29, 2020
Perl 7 (2)June 24, 2020
PHP at 25 (1)June 8, 2020
Five Years of Rust (4)June 4, 2020
What’s New in Swift 5.3 (1)May 18, 2020
Nested Property Wrappers in Swift May 13, 2020
Chris Lattner on Swift, TensorFlow, MLIR, and SiFive March 27, 2020
Objective-C Quiz (6)February 6, 2020
Xcode 11.4 Beta February 5, 2020
NSErrorDomain, NS_ERROR_ENUM, and NSErrorUserInfoKey February 4, 2020
On the Road to Swift 6 (5)January 24, 2020
Swift’s CollectionOfOne (1)December 23, 2019
The Cub Programming Language December 20, 2019
Swift Evolution Pitch: Modify Accessors (4)December 19, 2019
Tony Brooker, RIP December 16, 2019
How Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn’t November 20, 2019
Direct Objective-C Properties (4)November 19, 2019
Swift Numerics November 8, 2019
Swift 5.1 Released (1)September 23, 2019
Is Perl 6 Being Renamed? September 12, 2019
Sunsetting Python 2 (1)September 12, 2019
Identifiable in Swift 5.1 (2)August 28, 2019
Some Obscure C Features August 23, 2019
Why Generics in Go? (1)August 22, 2019
Nullable References in C# 8.0 August 21, 2019
What’s Coming in Python 3.8 July 19, 2019
Swift Property Wrappers June 25, 2019
Dynamic Equality Checking and Equatable May 17, 2019
Optional, throws, Result, and async/await May 8, 2019
Jim des Rivieres, RIP May 6, 2019
Joe Armstrong, RIP April 22, 2019
Library Evolution for Stable Swift ABIs April 15, 2019
Improving the UI of Swift Generics (3)April 10, 2019
Accessors Have Message Obsession April 3, 2019
What’s New in Swift 5.1 (1)April 1, 2019
UTF-8 String in Swift 5 (1)March 21, 2019
Why Operators Are Useful March 21, 2019
Software-ICs, Binary Compatibility, and Objective-Swift (1)March 12, 2019
The Curiously Recursive Inlinable Switch Pattern (CRISP) February 20, 2019
Fast Safe Mutable State in Swift 5 February 7, 2019
Why Swift’s Copy-on-Write Is Safe (1)February 6, 2019
Swift 5 Exclusivity Enforcement (1)February 5, 2019
Swift 5 Release Notes for Xcode 10.2 Beta (4)January 24, 2019
ExpressibleByStringInterpolation in Swift 5 January 24, 2019
Stack Allocation for Non-Escaping Swift Closures January 17, 2019
Swift Community Podcast January 16, 2019
Swift Import Declarations January 7, 2019
Rust 2019 and Beyond: Limits to (Some) Growth December 31, 2018
Swift 5: Raw String Literals December 28, 2018
@dynamicCallable: Unix Tools as Swift Functions (2)December 27, 2018
Computer Pioneers Advent Calendar December 27, 2018
Lifting the “Self or associated type” Constraint on Swift Existentials November 29, 2018
The Zig Programming Language (2)November 16, 2018
String’s ABI and UTF-8 November 6, 2018
Swift’s “if case let” Syntax (2)November 1, 2018
Flattening Nested Optionals Resulting From try? (2)October 26, 2018
Swift Nil-coalescing Performance Trap October 10, 2018
How Swift’s Mirror Works September 28, 2018
Swift 5 Preview (1)September 25, 2018
Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack September 14, 2018
Why You’re Not Supposed to Call Swift’s description September 6, 2018
Adding isMultiple(of:) to Swift’s BinaryInteger August 31, 2018
Making Swift.org a More Valuable Resource for the Swift Community August 17, 2018
Objective-C Features That I Wish Existed (3)July 31, 2018
The Swift Compiler Can Reason About “Never” July 31, 2018
Schema-less Database With Dynamic Swift (1)July 23, 2018
Guido van Rossum Steps Down as Python BDFL (3)July 13, 2018
Swift 4.2’s New Calling Convention July 5, 2018
Exploring @dynamicMemberLookup June 29, 2018
Parsing AppleScript June 15, 2018
On My Misalignment With Apple’s Love Affair With Swift (26)June 10, 2018
Swift 4.2 (2)June 7, 2018
C Is Not a Low-level Language (3)May 10, 2018
Reimplementation of Implicitly Unwrapped Optionals April 30, 2018
Swift for TensorFlow, Released (1)April 29, 2018
JavaScript’s Tricky Rounding April 27, 2018
Forcing Compiler Errors in Swift (1)April 23, 2018
Behind-the-Scenes Improvements in Swift 4.1 April 12, 2018
Swift 4.1 (2)April 1, 2018
Swift for TensorFlow (1)March 30, 2018
Dealing With Weak in Closure-based Delegation (2)March 23, 2018
Swift 4.1 Conditional Conformance Is Amazing (1)March 13, 2018
Swift Protocols Wish List February 28, 2018
Speed Improvements in Python 3.7 February 27, 2018
Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass February 2, 2018
Swift Tip: OpaquePointer vs. UnsafePointer January 31, 2018
Swift Imports Fixed-size C Arrays As Tuples January 31, 2018
Swift’s Reflective Underpinnings January 26, 2018
Tim Cook on Coding (18)January 26, 2018
Swift Forums January 22, 2018
Swift String ABI, Performance, and Ergonomics (1)January 16, 2018
Conditional Conformance in the Standard Library (1)January 8, 2018
Swift and GPU Compiler Details November 29, 2017
Strings in Swift 4 November 27, 2017
HashVisitable Swift Evolution Proposal October 11, 2017
Why Many Developers Still Prefer Objective-C to Swift (9)October 6, 2017
Swift Proposal: Non-Exhaustive Enums September 22, 2017
HHVM Chooses Hack Over PHP 7 September 21, 2017
Swift 4.0 Released (1)September 20, 2017
Using Lazy Variables to Work Around Swift Initialization Rules (2)August 31, 2017
Swift’s Error Handling Implementation (2)August 31, 2017
Swift 4: Bridging Peephole for “as” Casts (6)August 29, 2017
Dylan and Newton History August 28, 2017
Swift 4: Synthesizing Equatable and Hashable Conformance (3)August 22, 2017
Concurrency in Swift: One Possible Approach (1)August 18, 2017
Swift.Unmanaged August 14, 2017
Swift 5: Start Your Engines August 9, 2017
Protocol Composition in Swift and Objective-C (1)August 9, 2017
“required” Swift Initializers and Decodable August 3, 2017
Matching and Bridging NSErrors in Swift July 24, 2017
Chris Lattner on the Realm WWDC 2017 Swift Panel June 30, 2017
Swift 4: JSON With Encoder and Encodable (2)June 30, 2017
Modern Python Dictionaries (2)June 23, 2017
Swift’s MemoryLayout: size and stride June 23, 2017
Porting Objective-C to Swift June 20, 2017
Swift’s Evolution June 4, 2017
Android Adds Official Kotlin Support May 18, 2017
The Dangers of Using Nonatomic Properties May 2, 2017
Close Encounters of The Java Memory Model Kind May 1, 2017
Concurrency Is Not Parallelism April 29, 2017
Swift Source Compatibility Test Suite April 24, 2017
Naming Swift Extensions April 20, 2017
Syntactic Diabetes April 18, 2017
Swift ABI Stability Dashboard (2)April 17, 2017
Thoughts on Swift Access Control April 6, 2017
Some Swift Types Are More Equatable Than Others March 31, 2017
Swift 3.1 March 28, 2017
Foundation Swift Archival & Serialization Proposal (6)March 16, 2017
Rust’s Language Ergonomics Initiative March 10, 2017
Playing Jenga With Swift’s Type Checker March 10, 2017
Provide Custom Collections for Dictionary Keys and Values (1)February 20, 2017
Ruby’s reject! February 20, 2017
Swift Ownership Manifesto (2)February 18, 2017
Deferring ABI Stability From Swift 4 (2)February 16, 2017
Being a Mutable Collection is not Sufficient to be a MutableCollection February 16, 2017
Swift 3 Keywords Reference February 13, 2017
Building a LISP From Scratch With Swift February 6, 2017
Fun With Swift String Interpolation January 31, 2017
Swift Weak References and Type Erasure January 29, 2017
Swift 4 String Manifesto (5)January 27, 2017
Swift ABI Stability Manifesto (1)January 26, 2017
Chris Lattner ATP Interview (16)January 23, 2017
Swift 3 Protocols (1)January 13, 2017
Static Typing vs. Testing (13)January 12, 2017
Unsafe Swift: Using Pointers and Interacting With C January 6, 2017
Stroustrup’s Rule and Layering Over Time (1)December 20, 2016
Swift: Challenges and Opportunity for Language and Compiler Research (1)December 19, 2016
Golang’s Real-Time GC in Theory and Practice December 19, 2016
How to Unit Test Private Methods in Swift (4)December 9, 2016
Method Dispatch in Swift (2)December 8, 2016
Why Does calloc Exist? December 7, 2016
Exploring Swift Memory Layout December 5, 2016
The RawRepresentable Protocol in Swift December 2, 2016
Mulle-objc: a New Objective-C Compiler and Runtime November 27, 2016
Mixing Swift Initializers November 17, 2016
Swift Copy-on-Write PSA: Mutating Dictionary Entries (1)November 14, 2016
Passing an Array of Strings From Swift to C (1)November 8, 2016
Objective-C id as Swift Any November 7, 2016
Underscore Uses in Swift November 6, 2016
Optional Non-Escaping Swift Closures (7)October 11, 2016
Real World Swift Performance October 7, 2016
Advanced Swift, Second Edition October 6, 2016
Swift 3.0 Unsafe World (1)October 5, 2016
How to Save the Princess in 8 Programming Languages October 5, 2016
Option Sets in Swift October 4, 2016
What’s in a Swift Collection? September 29, 2016
Swift 3 Notes (1)September 20, 2016
Swift 3’s “Never” September 6, 2016
.NET/C# Generics History August 25, 2016
Looking Back on Swift 3 and Ahead to Swift 4 (1)July 30, 2016
Python Internals: PyObject July 29, 2016
End of Source-breaking Changes for Swift 3 July 28, 2016
Removing Bit Flags in Swift Option Sets July 27, 2016
Eleventh Hour Swift 3 Reviews July 26, 2016
Swift Type Aliases (1)July 26, 2016
Swift Closure Capture Semantics July 25, 2016
Bridging Existentials & Generics in Swift 2 July 24, 2016
Exponential Time Complexity in the Swift Type Checker (1)July 18, 2016
The Secret Life of Types in Swift July 18, 2016
Swift Classes to Be Non Publicly Subclassable by Default (12)July 17, 2016
Interviews: Kare, Bezos, Musk, Felleisen, Gruber July 2, 2016
Why Swift Ditched Tuple-to-Tuple Function Modeling July 1, 2016
Objective-C Class Properties July 1, 2016
Restructuring Swift Condition Clauses June 23, 2016
Increased Safety in Swift 3 June 21, 2016
Swift Type Erasure (1)June 1, 2016
Swift Tuples Aren’t Equatable (12)May 24, 2016
C Compilers Break for Objects Larger Than PTRDIFF_MAX Bytes May 23, 2016
Dynamic Swift (17)May 21, 2016
Swift Assertions (2)May 20, 2016
ABI Stability Deferred Until After Swift 3.0 (7)May 17, 2016
Compile Time vs. Run Time Type Checking in Swift May 12, 2016
Demangling Swift With Swift May 9, 2016
Speeding Up Slow Swift Build Times (2)April 29, 2016
Swift Proposal: Mutability and Foundation Value Types (3)April 22, 2016
Swift Type-checking Performance Case Study April 21, 2016
Swift Asserts March 4, 2016
Swift Evolution Acceptances March 4, 2016
Why Safe C Is Sometimes Unsafe Swift March 3, 2016
Proposed New Swift Collections Model March 3, 2016
Swift Protocols With Associated Types (3)February 19, 2016
Not Too Late to Change February 19, 2016
Swift Evolution Proposals February 16, 2016
Swift Mailing Lists Are Self-Selecting (4)February 11, 2016
Swift Struct Storage February 11, 2016
From “Result” to “throw” and Back February 8, 2016
Swift Optimization Tips and Reference Counting February 3, 2016
Value vs. Reference in Swift (1)February 3, 2016
Seven Swift Snares (1)February 2, 2016
7 Scandalous Weird Old Things About the C Preprocessor January 25, 2016
Exploring Swift Dictionary’s Implementation (1)January 23, 2016
Swift Named Parameters (3)January 20, 2016
NSStringFromClass and NSClassFromString in Swift January 15, 2016
Better Translation of Objective-C APIs Into Swift (2)January 13, 2016
Proposal: XCTest Support for Swift Error Handling (1)January 10, 2016
Exploring Swift Array’s Implementation (2)January 8, 2016
Generic Collections, SubSequences and Overloading January 8, 2016
Swift 2.2 Release Process (3)January 7, 2016
Swift Bracing (8)January 7, 2016
Swift Proposal for Default Final (8)December 21, 2015
Swift Standard Library Protocols December 20, 2015
Swift Type Constrained Extensions December 16, 2015
Craig Federighi on Swift (2)December 15, 2015
Swift’s Lazy Weak References December 11, 2015
Swift Plans (4)December 9, 2015
Variable Capture and Loops December 3, 2015
The End of Dynamic Languages (8)December 3, 2015
Swift init() November 30, 2015
Favorite Terrible Programming Languages (2)November 30, 2015
Covariance and Contravariance November 29, 2015
How Swift Implements Unowned and Weak References (2)November 24, 2015
Where “where” May Be Used in Swift (1)November 14, 2015
Why Is Swift’s String API So Hard? November 6, 2015
How Swift Implements Generics November 6, 2015
Swift’s @noescape Attribute October 26, 2015
Empty Parentheses Are Not “No Parameters” in (Objective-)C (1)October 15, 2015
NSData, My Old Friend (1)October 11, 2015
Jitterdämmerung (2)October 8, 2015
What the Heck Is a Monad (9)October 5, 2015
Swift 2.1 September 24, 2015
Custom Swift Pattern Matching Operators September 24, 2015
Struct Semantics in Swift September 4, 2015
Why Dependent Types Matter (2)September 3, 2015
Swift Protocols (7)September 1, 2015
Swift 2 Beta 6 (1)August 27, 2015
Lazy Filters and Maps August 22, 2015
Swift Funtime August 22, 2015
Swift Pattern Matching in Detail August 21, 2015
Go 1.5 August 20, 2015
Top 10 Worst C# Features (1)August 19, 2015
Generic “Functions” in Objective-C August 19, 2015
Testing Swift’s ErrorType August 19, 2015
A Eulogy for Objective-C (4)August 18, 2015
Objective-Swift (3)August 13, 2015
Swift Protocols, Arrays, and Casting (3)August 3, 2015
Swift Array Performance (8)August 1, 2015
Objective-C Improvements and Swift Interoperability July 31, 2015
UIKonf 2015 Videos July 30, 2015
Linked Lists, Enums, Value Types and Identity (2)July 27, 2015
Weak and Unowned References in Swift (5)July 24, 2015
Strings in Swift 2 (2)July 24, 2015
Dynamic Swift (9)July 23, 2015
init? vs. init throws (1)July 23, 2015
Perl 6 Due This Year (1)July 23, 2015
Higher Order Functions in Swift 2 July 22, 2015
Python 3.5: async and await (2)July 14, 2015
Swift 2: SIMD June 25, 2015
Swift Protocols Question (6)June 22, 2015
Other New Swift 2 Features (1)June 22, 2015
Swift 2 Error Handling, Continued (6)June 19, 2015
Swift 2 Error Handling in Practice (4)June 12, 2015
WWDC 2015 Links (8)June 9, 2015
MirrorType June 4, 2015
Why I Don’t Write Swift (4)June 4, 2015
Swift Subscripts Support Labeled Parameters June 2, 2015
LaunchBar Action Editor and AppleScript List Syntax (10)May 22, 2015
First-Class “Statements” (1)May 21, 2015
Which Features Overcomplicate Swift? (2)May 21, 2015
Swift: the Unused Optional Value Problem May 13, 2015
Why Lisp? May 9, 2015
Quoted Domain Specific Languages April 9, 2015
Custom Swift Switch Matchers (4)April 2, 2015
Why Overload Operators? (2)April 1, 2015
Swift Protocols and Generics (2)March 28, 2015
Simple Reflection in Swift March 14, 2015
flatMap and Swift 1.2 Betas 2 and 3 March 13, 2015
Core Data vs. ARC (2)February 28, 2015
Swift 1.2 February 13, 2015
Locks, Thread Safety, and Swift (1)February 6, 2015
Awk in 20 Minutes February 6, 2015
Learn You a Haskell February 2, 2015
Swift Resistance (2)February 2, 2015
Dynamic Casting in Swift February 1, 2015
Weakness February 1, 2015
Some Notes on Rust, the Language February 1, 2015
Protocols and Swift February 1, 2015
Swift: No Macros, No Compromises (3)January 30, 2015
An Example on How to Use NSProgress (2)January 25, 2015
Swift Capture Lists January 24, 2015
Let’s Build Swift Notifications January 23, 2015
Real World Swift January 17, 2015
Proof in Functions January 13, 2015
Functor and Monad in Swift (1)January 13, 2015
Undefined Behavior in C January 13, 2015
Generating Go Code December 23, 2014
Tearing Down Swift’s Optional Pyramid of Doom (3)December 12, 2014
Strange Tales of Swift Initialization (1)November 25, 2014
A Swift Corner Case November 25, 2014
Perl 6: Get Ready to Party (3)November 24, 2014
Swift Retrospective (2)November 21, 2014
The Point of Optionals (3)November 1, 2014
Lebeaupin on Swift (1)October 22, 2014
Mutable Collections in Swift October 19, 2014
Hypothetical Objective-C 3.0 (4)October 14, 2014
To Swift and Back Again October 9, 2014
Brad Cox Interview (2009) October 6, 2014
David’s Swift Dilemma September 25, 2014
A Warm Welcome to Structs and Value Types September 13, 2014
Swift 1.0 Performance and Compilation Times (4)September 13, 2014
RawOptionSetType September 8, 2014
Protocols and Assumptions September 2, 2014
Swift Default Protocol Implementations September 2, 2014
The Swift Wish List (3)August 25, 2014
Macro-like Syntax Extensions Through Pseudo-closures (1)August 24, 2014
Implicitly Converting Functions to Return Optionals August 24, 2014
Swift Function Currying August 23, 2014
Implementing a MyBool Type in Swift August 23, 2014
“It’s a Coup” (17)August 18, 2014
Changes to Swift in Beta 4 July 22, 2014
A Modest Proposal: C++ Resyntaxed July 19, 2014
Building assert() in Swift July 19, 2014
Swift In Flux July 11, 2014
Strings in Swift (1)July 6, 2014
Secrets of Swift’s Speed July 6, 2014
Swift Instance Methods Can Shadow Functions (1)July 6, 2014
Swift and Inheritance (4)July 2, 2014
The Case for Message Passing in Swift (14)June 27, 2014
Interesting Swift Features June 22, 2014
The Safyness of Static Typing (2)June 19, 2014
Swift Arrays June 18, 2014
The Legacy of GOAL June 18, 2014
Swift: Objective-C Without the Smalltalk (3)June 17, 2014
Instantiating Classes by Name in Swift (5)June 13, 2014
Swift Links (4)June 4, 2014
Python 3 and Unicode May 28, 2014
The Origin of Smalltalk’s Select, Reject, and Inject April 30, 2014
BASIC at 50 (1)April 30, 2014
How I Came to Write D April 8, 2014
Java 8 March 26, 2014
Introducing the Hack Programming Language March 20, 2014
Objective-Smalltalk (2)March 12, 2014
How to Succeed at Recursion Without Really Recursing February 27, 2014
Starting to Demo the Wolfram Language February 25, 2014
ARM Immediate Value Encoding February 14, 2014
NewtonScript and Newton OS Papers January 29, 2014
PHP Function Naming (1)January 27, 2014
Principles of Programming Languages 2014 January 24, 2014
Ruby Under a Microscope November 9, 2013
Why Maybe Is Better Than Null November 8, 2013
Why Array Indices Start at Zero (1)October 30, 2013
How Java’s Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere October 29, 2013
AppleScript and Mavericks (6)October 25, 2013
Postmodern Programming September 29, 2013
Why Mobile Web Apps Are Slow July 9, 2013
How Three Guys Rebuilt the Foundation of Facebook (1)June 13, 2013
C Quiz (3)May 31, 2013
The Terra Programming Language May 14, 2013
Ruby 2.0 February 27, 2013
Atomic Weapons: The C++ Memory Model and Modern Hardware February 11, 2013
Functional Reactive in the Netflix API With RxJava February 6, 2013
Dylan Programming Guide January 22, 2013
What Will Programming Look Like in 2020? December 24, 2012
C and Objective-C Modules Proposal (7)November 30, 2012
Go Bloviations September 29, 2012
Visi September 23, 2012
Theoretical and Practical Weaknesses of Objective-C September 15, 2012
Condition Handling for Non-Lispers September 6, 2012
C Is About Simplistic Memory Models (1)August 28, 2012
Copland 2010 Revisited (31)June 16, 2010
Woz’s Regret October 17, 2006
Interviews September 7, 2005
Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice (4)September 25, 2004
The Early History of Smalltalk August 2, 2004
PHP 5 Object References (24)July 15, 2004
Multimethods June 3, 2003
Types February 9, 2003
Perl vs. Python vs. Ruby (158)November 25, 2002

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