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Swift Evolution, July 2016
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Submitted by matt_eaton on Sun, 07/17/2016 - 09:16 PM

As a follower and contributor to the Swift language every once and awhile I like to take stock of the latest proposals on Swift Evolution and see what has been accepted, what is in-review, or what has been rejected for the current release of the language.

JSONSerialization.jsonObject Method Call Not Catching Runtime Error In Swift 3.0
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Submitted by matt_eaton on Sun, 07/03/2016 - 03:47 AM

It was brought to my attention the other day at work that Swift's JSONSerialization.jsonObject method was throwing runtime errors inside a do catch statement of type AnyObject and the do catch statement was not catching those errors as expected.

Swift 3.0
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Submitted by matt_eaton on Fri, 06/17/2016 - 03:23 PM

At the time of writing this Swift is the number one language project on Github. Apple is very proud that Swift is open source and I would have to agree that this is an excellent step forward for the language and for Apple. Another great step forward from a language and platform perspective is the ability to run Swift on macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and Ubuntu Linux.

Using Machine Learning To Solve An Algorithm in iOS
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Submitted by matt_eaton on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 02:48 AM

In my most recent adventures in iOS I had a string hashing problem that led me down the road of creating a machine learning algorithm in order to find the correct random hash string I was looking for. Looking back at the solution now, I was able to solve my problem successfully, but the solution I came up with to solve this problem is quite unsettling due to the variable results in time compl

Apple Announces Swift at WWDC 2014

Submitted by matt_eaton on Sat, 06/07/2014 - 07:21 PM

This Monday in San Francisco Apple had their annual World Wide Developer Conference or WWDC. Last year Apple debuted iOS7, and it was a significant release for designers. This year, Apple announced iOS8, and they promised it to be a “Giant” developer release, a release that has not been this large since the launch of the app store.

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