“@jckarter @kylebshr I’d caution against judging any language’s teaching potential via toy examples of string manipulation that never happen in real life. More important is how the learning curve progresses into day 2, day 20, day 200.”

Making a claim that something will never be the case can feel like an invitation for the universe to prove otherwise. Fortunately for us, Swift lives up to this higher standard thanks to the unlikeliest of types.

Void has no members: no methods, no values, not even a name. It’s a something more nothing than nil.

“@jckarter @dimsumthinking And then you have to ask what kind of linked list? Singly-linked persistent, doubly-linked mutable? The educational argument is strong, but I suspect the most educational part of a linked list is writing your own.”

Check out @mbrandonw's talk on how reducers compose, which covers how you can build up with a big ole "appReducer" out of all the smaller reducers in your code base:https://t.co/VFkcZyVxrr— Stephen Celis (@stephencelis) October 20, 2018

“@cocoaphony Right. I'm not opposed to methods, but there's a giant class of operations that do not have a "primary" object that they're acting on, and simply make more sense written as free functions because of this.”

I'm dipping my toe into screencasts. Here's my first attempt.

http://2015.funswiftconf.com