115: “A framework and an app”, with special guest Simon Støvring

Simon Støvring returns to the show to talk about how he built his new text editor Runestone, how to effectively manage an app’s settings, performance tuning, and implementing an app’s core logic as a stand-alone framework.

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Links

• Simon on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• Runestone
• Scriptable
• Data Jar
• Jayson
• Visual Studio Code
• Working Copy
• UserDefaults
• Property wrappers
• SwiftUI’s state management system
• UITextView
• SwiftUI’s TextEditor
• TextKit
• CoreText
• UITextInput
• JavascriptCore
• Publish
• Managing dependencies using Swift Package Manager
• Simon’s website
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk