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Swift 3 New Features

By : Keith Elliott
Book Image

Swift 3 New Features

By: Keith Elliott

Overview of this book

Since Swift was introduced by Apple in WWDC 2015, it has gone on to become one of the most beloved languages to develop iOS applications with. In the new version, the Swift team aimed to take its adoption to the next level by making it available for new platforms and audiences. This book will very quickly get you up to speed and productive with Swift 3. You will begin by understanding the process of submitting new feature requests for future versions of Swift. Swift 3 allows you to develop and run your applications on a Linux machine. Using this feature, you will write your first Linux application using the debugger in Linux. Using Swift migrator, you will initiate a conversion from Swift 2.2 to Swift 3. Further on, you will learn how to interact with Cocoa libraries when importing Objective C to Swift. You will explore the function and operator changes new to Swift 3, followed by Collection and Closure changes. You will also see the changes in Swift 3 that allow you write tests easier with XCTest and debug your running code better with new formats as well. Finally, you will have a running server written completely in Swift on a Linux box. By the end of the book, you will know everything you need to know to dive into Swift 3 and build successful projects.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Swift 3 New Features
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
5
Function and Operator Changes – New Ways to Get Things Done

Our first Swift program


Let's create our first program on Linux using Swift. Our first project will be a package. Create a directory named guesswho and then enter the directory:

$ mkdir guesswho 
$ cd guess who

Next we need to initialize a new package with the type being an executable:

$ swift package init --type executable 
Creating executable package: guesswho 
Creating Package.swift 
Creating .gitignore 
Creating Sources/ 
Creating Sources/main.swift 
Creating Tests/

I want to point out a couple of things about the output of swift package init. First, using the swift package init command is optional and meant only to be a utility mechanism for generating files and directories you may need. Second, the package manager expects you to put your sources files within the Sources directory. You can further nest additional directories under the Sources directory and the package manager will treat those directories as modules. Finally, when you want to create...