Some tests need to be skipped when executing on CI (continuous integration like travis.org).…
Package.swift - manual
Here is documentation for SPM manifest file Package.swift. I couldn't find a list of possible configuration values for Package.swift, so I created one, for future reference. I put here all available settings, with examples of use. Please find examples at the end of the post. Preamble…
Documenting Swift protocol
In Swift, I can write documentation at a protocol level now. There is a kick-ass feature added recently to Xcode 8 (beta 4). If I add documentation of function at the protocol level, it's available at the level of implementation. Look, I wrote documentation to Task.run(…
Status of Portable Swift code
Portable Swift [http://swift.org] source code is so damn hard to do. Main problem is that OSX and Linux Swift is using different Foundation codebase. Linux is using SwiftFoundation [https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation] and OSX is using Foundation [https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/…
Overload Swift type ambiguity
Swift allows function overloading even when two signatures differ only in their return type.…