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As Swift evolves, a lot of new evolution proposals get merged into the language. Eventually these new language versions get shipped with Xcode, but sometimes you might want to try out Swift toolchains before they’re available inside of Xcode. For example, I’m currently experimenting with Swift 6.2’s upcoming features to see how they will impact […]

Dates in Swift can be compared to each other. This allows you to check whether one date comes before or after another date: if dateOne > dateTwo { print("dateOne comes after dateTwo") } else if dateOne < dateTwo { print("dateOne comes before dateTwo") } else if dateOne == dateTwo { print("dateOne is equal to dateTwo") […]

Whenever we write code, we want our code to be well-designed. We want it to be flexible, elegant and safe. We want to make sure that Swift’s type system and the compiler catch as many of our mistakes as possible. It’s especially interesting how Swift’s type system can help us avoid obvious errors. For example, […]