
123: “The evolution of Swift”, with special guest Nick Lockwood
On this final episode of 2022, Nick Lockwood returns to the show to discuss the overall evolution of Swift and its ecosystem of tools and li...
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John Sundell & guests answer questions about Swift development from the community.

On this final episode of 2022, Nick Lockwood returns to the show to discuss the overall evolution of Swift and its ecosystem of tools and li...

Ben Scheirman returns to the show to discuss how Swift’s built-in concurrency features, such as async/await and tasks, can be used in practi...

Adam Bell returns to the podcast to discuss different techniques and approaches for optimizing UI code, and how to utilize tools like animat...

Donny Wals returns to the show to talk about being an iOS developer freelancer, and to discuss some of the key new APIs, Swift language feat...

Gui Rambo returns to the show to talk about the role and importance of system design when building apps and open source tools, and how commo...

Natalia Panferova joins John to discuss some of the key new features that are coming to SwiftUI and UIKit in iOS 16, and to talk about her e...

Ben Cohen, manager of the Swift team at Apple, joins John on this WWDC22 special to discuss Swift 5.7, how generics have been made more powe...

Chris Eidhof returns to the podcast to talk about how SwiftUI has evolved since its initial release, to share several key learnings from usi...

Simon Støvring returns to the show to talk about how he built his new text editor Runestone, how to effectively manage an app’s settings, pe...

Sommer Panage returns to the show to discuss Apple’s various accessibility APIs and tools, how to incorporate accessibility support into a t...

On this 2022 season premiere, JP Simard returns to the show to discuss what’s next for Swift in 2022, and what kinds of improvements and new...

To wrap up the 2021 season of the show, John revisits some of the key themes and topics that were discussed both on the show itself, and wit...

James Thomson returns to the show to discuss the various technologies that enable us to render custom UIs on Apple’s platforms. From renderi...

Tim Condon joins John to discuss how both client and server-side Swift developers could utilize the new built-in concurrency system, as well...

Nick Lockwood joins John for a discussion about maintaining Swift code bases — from open source projects, to ones worked on by teams of vari...

Marin Todorov returns to the podcast to discuss Swift’s new concurrency system and its newly announced backward compatibility, his new book...

Ben Scheirman returns to the show to talk about modern UIKit-based app development, how UIKit has evolved over the past few years, and how i...

Christian Selig returns to the show to talk about how he used the new Safari extension system on iOS to build Amplosion and Achoo, the pros...

Marcin Krzyzanowski returns to the show to talk about building editors for Swift code, backend-driven user interfaces, and more. Also, the c...

Roxana Jula joins John to discuss Apple’s various tools, frameworks, and APIs for building Augmented Reality experiences. How to get started...

Antoine van der Lee, creator of SwiftLee, joins John to discuss the new language features that are being introduced as part of Swift 5.5 — f...

Jordan Morgan returns to the show to discuss some of the key new APIs and frameworks that were announced at WWDC21, and how they can be inte...

Malin Sundberg joins John to talk about her experiences of using SwiftUI to build and ship the time-tracking and invoicing app Orbit on most...

Chris Lattner returns to the show to discuss Swift’s new concurrency features, the ongoing evolution of the language, and the importance of...

Doug Gregor from Apple joins John to discuss Swift 5.5’s new concurrency features in great detail. How do features like async/await and acto...

Sean Allen returns to the show to talk about using the MVVM design pattern within SwiftUI-based apps, building a course around MapKit and Cl...

Ish ShaBazz returns to the show for a special pre-WWDC episode about what new APIs and developer tools that Apple might announce at this yea...

Adam Bell returns to the show to talk about animations, both how to make great use of the built-in animation tools that the iOS SDK ships wi...

Brent Simmons returns to the show to discuss multi-threading and concurrency, and how to make good use of tools like Grand Central Dispatch....

Benedikt Terhechte returns to the show to discuss the pros and cons of using technologies like Catalyst and SwiftUI to build Mac apps, and a...

Donny Wals, book author and iOS developer at Disney Streaming Services, joins John to give practical tips on Combine and Core Data. How to m...

Kaitlin Mahar, lead engineer at MongoDB and member of the Swift Server Work Group, joins John to discuss the current state of server-side Sw...

David Smith, creator of apps like Widgetsmith, returns to the show to discuss whether SwiftUI is currently capable and stable enough to buil...

Matt Gallagher, creator of Cocoa with Love, returns to the show to discuss how the introduction of SwiftUI and Combine has impacted how apps...

Ellen Shapiro returns to the show to discuss framework and SDK development, and how that often requires a somewhat different process from ap...

On this special episode of the show, John wraps up the 2020 season by revisiting some of the key themes and topics that were discussed on th...

Chris Eidhof returns to the show to go on a deep dive into the SwiftUI layout system. What are the different phases involved in determining...

Daniel Steinberg joins John to discuss how various functional programming patterns can be adopted in Swift, and how many of those patterns c...

James Thomson, creator of PCalc, returns to the show to discuss how developers can bring their apps to multiple Apple platforms using techno...

Vincent Pradeilles joins John to discuss various ways to use Swift language features like key paths and closures, how they relate to pattern...

Simon Støvring, the developer behind several powerful iOS productivity apps, including Scriptable, joins John on an episode all about the ne...

Jordan Singer joins John to discuss various approaches of turning designs into fully implemented UIs, how to manage things like mock data du...

Carola Nitz, iOS developer at Netflix, joins John to discuss how larger iOS development teams typically operate, and how smaller teams can p...

Nick Lockwood returns to the show to go on a deep dive into data structures and algorithms, what some of the pros and cons of writing high-p...

Ben Scheirman, creator of NSScreencast, joins John on an episode all about UICollectionView. How have UICollectionView’s features evolved ov...

JP Simard returns to the show to discuss Swift 5.3’s main new features and improvements, and what those changes might tell us about the curr...

Jordan Morgan joins John to discuss various strategies for adopting new system features and APIs, how to keep up with the rapid changes to i...

Josh Shaffer and Eliza Block from Apple join John to talk about what’s new in SwiftUI, how Xcode Previews work under the hood, the new home...

Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt join John to talk about their newly launched Swift Package Index, and what the overall state of Swift’s pack...

On this special episode, John is joined by the entire team behind the award-winning apps Halide and Spectre, Apple’s 2019 App of the Year. B...