71: “Polymorphic interfaces”, with special guest Dave Abrahams
Dave Abrahams joins John to talk about Protocol-Oriented Programming and how to make the most out of the Swift Standard Library. Also, discussions on Swift’s overall design, why it puts such a strong emphasis on value types and protocols, and how it’s been influenced by other languages.
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Show Notes
Dave Abrahams joins John to talk about Protocol-Oriented Programming and how to make the most out of the Swift Standard Library. Also, discussions on Swift’s overall design, why it puts such a strong emphasis on value types and protocols, and how it’s been influenced by other languages.
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Links
- Dave on Twitter
- John on Twitter
- Protocol-Oriented Programming in Swift
- Embracing Algorithms
- Alexander Stepanov
- The C++ Standard Template Library
- Boost
- Enums with custom raw types
- Previous Swift for TensorFlow episode with Paige Bailey and Brennan Saeta
- Sean Parent
- Haskell Type Classes
- AnyCollection
- Specializing protocols
- Type erasure using closures
- Codable
- “The Genuine Sieve of Eratosthenes” by Melissa E. O’Neill
- Swift for TensorFlow open design meetings
- Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk