The Iphreaks Show

Panel: Andrew Jaim Erica In today's episode,  the iPhreak panel speaks with  Stephen about how Swift could benefit from higher level types like in Haskel, Reactive programming and testing in the Kickstarter app. Stephen is a software engineer living in Brooklyn, New York. He previously helped build and open source the Kickstarter mobile apps. He's a co-founder of Point-Free , a consultancy and upcoming educational video series on functional programming and Swift. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Open SourceLanguage RenaissanceHigher TypesMaps & ArraysFunctional & Reactive ProgrammingSwiftSwift as a gateway to functional programmingFuture features in Swift?What can you do with higher level types?How has application development evolvedDeclarative State is back! Programming by contractTestingTesting timecodeUnit TestingExamples of testing code from Kickstarter appPoint Free https://www.pointfree.co/ Picks: Jaim: Realm  Andrew: Cities SkylinesAdvent of Code Erica Anti-pick High Sierra