141: That’s a Lot of App

Code Completion

Welcome to Code Completion, Episode 141! We are a group of iOS developers and educators hoping to share what we love most about development, Apple technology, and completing your code!

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Today, we discuss:

• Swift Evolution Updates:
  • Init accessors accepted
  • Actor Isolation Interference with Property Wrappers also
  • Generalize conformance macros as extension macros as well
  • Arbitrary macro names in the global scope got updated
• Introducing Solarc:
  • Solarc
  • Linear
• CodableDatastore 0.1:
  • CodableDatastore
• Apple using new internal Ajax framework to build next gen LLMs:
  • Mark Gurman
  • Good use of LLMs
  • [XMLHttpRequest anyone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29)
• Apple Stores considering allowing users to pay now and ship later:
  • Mark Gurman
• Using an iPad as an external display:
  • Apple Insider
• Mini Review Corner: Classic Desktop Knit Cotton Blanket:
  • Throwboy
• Code Completion Tip: unowned let properties:
  • Swift Rocks
  • Wrapping in a non-mutable struct
• Completion Curiosities:
  • Blender Camera Followup
  • The Free Movie

Your hosts for this week:

• Spencer Curtis
• Ben Gohlke
• Dimitri Bouniol

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