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• Static and Dynamic Callable Types in Swift

  If like most of us, you aren’t tuned into the comings-and-goings of Swift Evolution, Xcode 11.4 is your first exposure to two new additions to the language: key path expressions as functions and callable values of user-defined nominal types.

• Language Server Protocol

  Apple’s adoption of LSP is arguably the most important decision they’ve made for Swift since releasing the language as open source in 2014. It’s a big deal for app developers, and it’s an even bigger deal for Swift developers on other platforms.

• Swift Development with Visual Studio Code

  VSCode is a cross-platform text and source code editor from Microsoft, and among the first tools to support Language Server Protocol. With LSP for Swift now shipping in Xcode, it’s a great time to see how this integration works for yourself.

• Raw​Representable

  Programming is about typing. And programming languages are typically judged by how much they make you type — in both senses of the word.

• @

  If we were to go code-watching for Objective-C, what would we look for? Square brackets, ridiculously long method names, and @’s.

• Objective-C Direct Methods

  It’s hard to get excited when new features come to Objective-C. These days, any such improvements are in service of Swift interoperability rather than an investment in the language itself. So it was surprising to learn about a recent patch to Clang.

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