86: “Map is a design pattern”, with special guest Daniel Steinberg

Daniel Steinberg joins John to discuss how various functional programming patterns can be adopted in Swift, and how many of those patterns can be found in both the standard library and in frameworks like Combine and SwiftUI.

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Links

• Daniel on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• Daniel’s books on Swift, SwiftUI and functional programming
• Function builders
• @StateObject
• React
• The Core Animation programming guide
• Map, flatMap and compactMap
• One of Daniel’s talks about map and functional programming
• The Gang of Four book on design patterns
• Combine
• The Result type
• The implementation of the map function
• First class functions
• Passing key paths as functions
• The previous episode with James Thomson
• The delegate pattern
• Ink
• Publish
• Managing dependencies using the Swift Package Manager
• dimsumthinking.com
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk