59: “A major step forward”, a SwiftUI special with Josh Shaffer

Josh Shaffer, engineering director with the UIKit and SwiftUI team at Apple, joins John to go on a deep dive into SwiftUI. What inspired the creation and design of SwiftUI, how does it impact the way apps are developed and architected, how is Apple using and improving SwiftUI internally, and much more.

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Links

• Josh on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• SwiftUI
• Opaque return types
• An example of type-driven development in Swift
• State and Data Flow in SwiftUI
• UITraitCollection
• The Swift 5.1 features that power SwiftUI’s API
• “New Diagnostic Architecture Overview” on the Swift blog
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk