When Apple announced Swift at WWDC, I knew that if I was going to keep up with the youngsters, I had to learn Swift. Unfortunately it has been a long time since I learned a new language; I learned Objective-C in 2000, I think. While I am capable of learning, finding the time to learn it and use it are getting harder and harder. However, I know that I didn’t have a choice.
I started reading Apple’s books on Swift and made it part way through when I got distracted. I’ve restarted a few times, but still haven’t finished. So I decided to take my automation app and completely rewrite it in Swift. While I could have re-used my existing code, I decided to do my implementation completely in Swift using a few open source libraries (there may have been better libraries to use, but the ones I picked seemed reasonable for now). While I’m still learning Swift, I thought it was a decent attempt to learn it. I’ve put my rewrite on GitHub for all to mock.
I’m going to keep learning and I think that reading the books will make a lot more sense now that I have a project under my belt.
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