Paris Buttfield-Addison on what’s new in Swift programming - a podcast by OReilly Media

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The O’Reilly Programming Podcast: Applying the latest language features to build video games and containerized microservices.

In this episode of theO’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk about Swift withParis Buttfield-Addison, co-founder ofSecret Lab, a mobile development studio that builds games and apps for mobile devices. He is the co-author ofLearning Swift, and a presenter of the Learning PathGetting Started with Swift on the iPadand the videoUltimate Swift Programming.

Discussion points:

  • TheSwift Playground app, which Buttfield-Addison calls “a great programming testing environment and a concise way to get people up to speed with the language.”
  • The appeal of the Swift language to game developers. “Swift is one of the few opportunities we have to develop games in a modern language for a platform we know people will actually use,” he says.
  • Building containerized microservices with Swift: “It’s really interesting to see how far Swift has come in the three years it’s been around. You’re able to write a fairly full-fledged web framework, put it in a container, and deploy it,” he says.
  • Buttfield-Addison explains why it’s easy tobuild a game in Unity: “You have to write less code, so fewer mistakes are on your side, and more is taken care of by the engine.”

I also talk with Brian Foster, content lead at O’Reilly and co-chair ofO’Reilly’s Software Architecture Conference, about some of the most discussed topics (including microservices, serverless architecture, and reactive architecture) at the conference in April 2017.

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