Kevin and Len are joined by Simon Stewart to discuss the Swift programming language from Apple. Swift is a modern object oriented programming language intended to supersede Objective-C as the standard language in an Apple developer's toolbox.

We talk about some of the quirks in Apple's developer ecosystem before unpacking some of the interesting language features Swift has to offer. We discuss topics such as tuples, pattern matching, generics, error handling and semicolons. There has also been talk about Swift 2.0's Linux compatibility and we discuss some of Simon's R&D into using Swift on the server side as well.

Follow Simon online:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/simonstewart

JSinSA: http://jsinsa.com/

Broken Keyboards: http://www.brokenkeyboards.com/

Some of Simon's projects include

Find Free Wifi: http://www.findfreewifi.co.za/

Find a Book Shop: http://www.findabookshop.co.za/

The Swift Programming Language: https://developer.apple.com/swift/

And our picks!

Simon:

John Sculley's book autobiography at Apple Odyssey - http://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Pepsi-Journey-Adventure-Future/dp/0060915277

Len:

Gluu (OAuth2 Server) - https://www.gluu.org/

Kevin:

Fearless - http://www.amazon.com/Fearless-Undaunted-Ultimate-Sacrifice-Operator/dp/0307730700

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