Holly Borla and Grace Kendall, both software engineers at Apple, join John to go on a deep dive into the Swift Playgrounds app and Swift 5.2’s new diagnostics engine. Also, how Swift Playgrounds was ported to the Mac using Catalyst, and Swift’s role in education and as a language for beginners.

Holly Borla and Grace Kendall, both software engineers at Apple, join John to go on a deep dive into the Swift Playgrounds app and Swift 5.2’s new diagnostics engine. Also, how Swift Playgrounds was ported to the Mac using Catalyst, and Swift’s role in education and as a language for beginners.

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LinksHolly on TwitterGrace on TwitterJohn on TwitterGrace and Holly’s WWDC talk from 2018Swift PlaygroundsAssigning a playground’s liveViewPlaygroundKeyValueStoreMaking a playground execute indefinitelyAn overview of the new diagnostics engine on the Swift blogAbstract Syntax TreeOpaque return types@autoclosureGoogle Summer of Code on the Swift ForumsThe Swift compiler’s source codeSwift’s bug trackerIntro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk

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