53: “The Swift Apple”, with special guest Brent Simmons

Longtime Apple platforms developer Brent Simmons joins John to discuss how SwiftUI is ushering in a new era for Apple’s developer tools, and how we as third party developers can prepare for it. Also, Mac development, lots of tips for writing efficient code, and dynamic programming in Swift.

Sponsors

This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to two wonderful sponsors. Make sure to check them out to help support this show:

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Links

• Brent on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• Rate or review Swift by Sundell on Apple Podcasts
• OmniFocus for the web
• Brent’s blog
• Brent’s GitHub projects
• NetNewsWire
• The NeXT Era Ends, the Swift Era Begins
• NSDocument
• UISceneDelegate
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk