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What if, instead of lowering source code down for the purpose of execution, we raised it for the purpose of understanding?

https://nshipster.com/as-we-may-code/

A brief remark about the excitement of Apple’s annual developer conference.

https://nshipster.com/wwdc-2020/

A brief essay about the flowering of ideas, written for the occasion of Earth Day.

https://nshipster.com/cross-pollination/

Apple and Google announced a joint initiative to deploy contact tracing functionality to the billions of devices running iOS or Android in the coming months. In this article, we’ll take a first...

https://nshipster.com/contact-tracing/

Developed by the Swift on Server community, its benefit isn’t limited to use on the server. Indeed, any Swift code intended to be run from the command line would benefit from adopting SwiftLog.

https://nshipster.com/swift-log/

Software development best practices prescribe strict separation of configuration from code. Learn how you can use xcconfig files to make your Xcode projects more compact, comprehensible, and powe...

https://nshipster.com/xcconfig/

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 an...

https://nshipster.com/callable/

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

https://nshipster.com/rawrepresentable/

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...

https://nshipster.com/vscode/

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...

https://nshipster.com/language-server-protocol/