Swift for Apple Admins

These are the links for my presentation at MacSysAdmin 2018 in Gothenborg.

Presentation Slides

Presentation Video

• Last year at MacSysAdmin: Bash Scripting

Swift

• Apple WWDC 2014 – Swift Introduction
• Swift.org
• Swift 5.0 Release Process
• Swift@IBM
• Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017
• Swift in 2018 – The State of Developer Ecosystem
• Create ML – Apple Developer Documentation
• PEP 373 — Python 2.7 Release Schedule
• How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations ever – Dropbox Tech Blog
• Swift ABI Stability Manifesto
• Swift ABI Dashboard

Reference, Books and Tutorials

• Swift Playgrounds
• ‎Swift Playgrounds (App Store)
• The Swift Programming Language: Apple Books, HTML
• Intro to App Development with Swift
• App Development with Swift
• Stanford – Developing iOS 11 Apps with Swift
• Hacking with macOS, Paul Hudson: Website, Apple Books
• Learn Swift

Characteristic Swift

• Type Safety and Type Inference
• Collection Types
• Optionals
• Optional Chaining

Command line tools with Swift Package Manager

• Building a command line tool using the Swift Package Manager
• Handling Commands with Swift Package Manager ArgumentParser
• MCE 2017: John Sundell, Swift scripting in practice

Swift Projects

• desktoppr
• Managing the Desktop Picture on macOS – Scripting OS X
• DEPNotify
• SplashBuddy
• NoMAD
• NoMADLogin-AD
• ProfileCreator
• jAlly: GitHub, Intro videos, iOS App Store
• Replay-app for tvOS