Sponsors

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

Panel

• Jaim Zuber
• Andrew Madsen
• Dave Delong

Joined by Special Guest: Derek Selander

Summary

Derek Selander introduces himself and how he got started.  The panel discusses debugging strategies and debugging with LLDB. The discussion moves to Hopper and using it to see what the UIKit is doing. Assembly Language differences between Swift and Objective and the effect on ABI stability are considered. The panel endorses Derek’s book as a great resource for developers. Derek shares how having this knowledge has helped him as a developer.

Links

• https://www.hopperapp.com/
• https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/debugger/index.shtml
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach-O
• https://www.raywenderlich.com/615-assembly-register-calling-convention-tutorial
• https://github.com/nygard/class-dump
• https://github.com/derekselander/
• https://twitter.com/lolgrep

Picks

Andrew Madsen

• Afuri Ramen in Tokyo, Japan

Dave Delong

• _ivarDescription
• _methodDescription
• https://github.com/nygard/class-dump

Derek Selander

• Ivars
• _shortmethoddescription
• https://github.com/derekselander/lldb