Sponsors

• Sentry– use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan

• CacheFly

Panel

• Michael Holt

• Andrew Madsen

Joined by Special Guest: Igor Kulman

Summary

Igor Kulman shares his experience pitching to the Swift evolution process and submitting a proposal. The panel discusses his pitches and his options going forward. Igor explains why he pitched a change to the standard library instead of creating his open source libraries. The panel encourages developers to contribute to Swift. Igor discusses his background with Windows phone, the challenges switching to be an iOS developer and building a Hackintosh computer. The panel compares C# and Swift, considering the new combine framework.

Links

• https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-unkeyeddecodingcontainer-movenext-to-skip-items-in-deserialization/22151 

• https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/23707 

• https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-method-to-sum-numeric-arrays/24170 

• https://github.com/Microsoft/referencesource 

• https://blog.kulman.sk/ 

• https://twitter.com/igorkulman 

• https://www.facebook.com/iphreaks/

• https://twitter.com/iphreaks

Picks

Michael Holt:

• https://tracker.toptal.com 

Andrew Madsen:

• BX-70 Micro Decimator - Atari/C64 Joystick  

Igor Kulman:

• https://github.com/igorkulman/iOSLocalizationEditor