JavaScriptCore
An updated ranking of programming language popularity is out this week, showing Swift leaping upward through the ranks from 68th to 22nd, while Objective-C holds a strong lead up ahead at #10. Both,...
View ArticleSwift & the Objective-C Runtime
Even when written without a single line of Objective-C code, every Swift app executes inside the Objective-C runtime, opening up a world of dynamic dispatch and associated runtime manipulation. To be...
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IBInspectable / IBDesignable
Show, don’t tell. Seeing is believing. A picture is worth a thousand emails words. Whatever the cliché, replacing an interface that requires us to memorize and type with one we can see and manipulate...
View ArticleSwift 1.2
Swift, true to its name, is moving fast. This week marks the beta release of Swift 1.2, a major update to the language. The Swift team has responded to so many of the community’s requests in one fell...
View ArticleSwift Collection Protocols
Swift has a well-designed and expansive suite of built-in collection types. Beyond Array, Dictionary, and the brand new Set types, the standard library provides slices, lazy collections, repeated...
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NSScanner
Strings are a ubiquitous and diverse part of our computing lives. They comprise emails and essays, poems and novels—and indeed, every article on nshipster.com, the configuration files that shape the...
View ArticleNSCalendar Additions
Dates. More than any other data type, the gulf between the initial banality of dates and their true, multifaceted complexity looms terrifyingly large. Combining sub-second precision, overlapping units,...
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Quick Look Debugging
Debugging can be an exercise in irony. We create programs that tell our pint-sized supercomputers to complete infinitely varied and incalculable tasks on our behalf, yet when trying to understand those...
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Unmanaged
APIs do more than just exposing functionality to developers. They also communicate values about how the API should be used and why. This communication is what makes naming things one of the Hard Parts...
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Swift Documentation
Code structure and organization is a matter of pride for developers. Clear and consistent code signifies clear and consistent thought. Even though the compiler lacks a discerning palate when it comes...
View ArticleThe Death of Cocoa
Cocoa is the de facto standard library of Objective-C, containing many of the essential frameworks for working in the language, such as Foundation, AppKit, and Core Data. Cocoa Touch is basically just...
View ArticleReader Submissions - New Year's 2015
As we take a moment to reflect on our experiences over the past year, one thing is clear: 2014 was an incredible year professionally for Apple developers. So much has happened in such a short timespan,...
View ArticleChanging of the Guard
I started NSHipster in the summer of 2012. What began as a snarky writing exercise to capture observations from my daily interactions with Cocoa & Objective-C became a full-time passion for...
View ArticleLong Live Cocoa
It’s the start of a new year—2015, the year of Watch, the first full year for Swift, and a bit of a new start for NSHipster. Before we get caught up in the excitement of new devices and the next beta...
View ArticleJavaScriptCore
An updated ranking of programming language popularity is out this week, showing Swift leaping upward through the ranks from 68th to 22nd, while Objective-C holds a strong lead up ahead at #10. Both,...
View ArticleSwift & the Objective-C Runtime
Even when written without a single line of Objective-C code, every Swift app executes inside the Objective-C runtime, opening up a world of dynamic dispatch and associated runtime manipulation. To be...
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IBInspectable / IBDesignable
Show, don’t tell. Seeing is believing. A picture is worth a thousand emails words.Whatever the cliché, replacing an interface that requires us to memorize and type with one we can see and manipulate...
View ArticleSwift 1.2
Swift, true to its name, is moving fast. This week marks the beta release of Swift 1.2, a major update to the language. The Swift team has responded to so many of the community’s requests in one fell...
View ArticleSwift Collection Protocols
Swift has a well-designed and expansive suite of built-in collection types. Beyond Array, Dictionary, and the brand new Set types, the standard library provides slices, lazy collections, repeated...
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NSScanner
Strings are a ubiquitous and diverse part of our computing lives. They comprise emails and essays, poems and novels—and indeed, every article on nshipster.com, the configuration files that shape the...
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