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Mastering Swift 5.3 - Sixth Edition

By : Jon Hoffman
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Mastering Swift 5.3 - Sixth Edition

By: Jon Hoffman

Overview of this book

Over the years, Mastering Swift has proven itself among developers as a popular choice for an in-depth and practical guide to the Swift programming language. This sixth edition comes with the latest features, an overall revision to align with Swift 5.3, and two new chapters on building swift from source and advanced operators. From the basics of the language to popular features such as concurrency, generics, and memory management, this in-depth guide will help you develop your expertise and mastery of the language. As you progress, you will gain practical insights into some of the most sophisticated elements in Swift development, including protocol extensions, error handling, and closures. The book will also show you how to use and apply them in your own projects. In later chapters, you will understand how to use the power of protocol-oriented programming to write flexible and easier-to-manage code in Swift. Finally, you will learn how to add the copy-on-write feature to your custom value types, along with understanding how to avoid memory management issues caused by strong reference cycles. By the end of this Swift book, you will have mastered the Swift 5.3 language and developed the skills you need to effectively use its features to build robust applications.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Index

Swift Documentation and Installing Swift

I spent a lot of my career working as a Linux System Administrator and Network Security Administrator. These positions required me to compile and install packages from source. There are a lot of advantages to building packages from source rather than downloading prebuilt binaries. The biggest advantage, in my opinion, is that you can get the latest version without having to wait for someone else to build it. This allows me to patch my systems with the latest security updates without delay. With Swift, we are also able to download the latest code and compile ourselves without having to wait for someone else to build it.

In this chapter, you will learn:

  • About the swift.org website and what it offers
  • How to find the latest documentation on Swift
  • Ways to install Swift
  • How to build Swift from source with its full toolchain and package manager

In the previous chapter, we mentioned that Apple has released...