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Protocol Witnesses: Part 1
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English - October 15, 2018 05:48 - 18 minutes - 55.9 MB Video - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTechnology Education programming development mobile ios functional swift apple developer software engineering server Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Protocols are a great tool for abstraction, but aren't the only one. This week we begin to explore the tradeoffs of using protocols by highlighting a few areas in which they fall short in order to demonstrate how we can recover from these problems using a different tool and different tradeoffs.