Panel:

Andrew

Jaim

Erica

In today's episode,  the iPhreak panel speaks with  Stephen about how Swift could benefit from higher level types like in Haskel, Reactive programming and testing in the Kickstarter app.

Stephen is a software engineer living in Brooklyn, New York. He previously helped build and open source the Kickstarter mobile apps. He's a co-founder of Point-Free , a consultancy and upcoming educational video series on functional programming and Swift.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Open Source
• Language Renaissance
• Higher Types
• Maps & Arrays
• Functional & Reactive Programming
• Swift
• Swift as a gateway to functional programming
• Future features in Swift?
• What can you do with higher level types?
• How has application development evolved
• Declarative State is back! Programming by contract
• Testing
• Testing timecode
• Unit Testing
• Examples of testing code from Kickstarter app
• Point Free https://www.pointfree.co/

Picks:

Jaim:

• Realm 

Andrew:

• Cities Skylines
• Advent of Code

Erica

• Anti-pick High Sierra missing Network Diagnostics App

Stephen

• Reducers
• Purescript
• Test Driven Reactive Programming