Preface
I started as an iOS developer in 2011. I loved to make iPhone apps and still do to this day. Besides doing mobile development work, I also was involved in some web development while learning Ruby. I loved the short powerful language, and wished I could use a compile-time language like Objective-C, but with the elegance and expressive nature of Ruby.
Then Apple introduced Swift, and it seems like they listened. Swift was a fresh take on programming for me, combining the elegance of a dynamic language with the speed and safety of a static language. I never liked the Objective-C syntax. I used to say things like “Yeah, Objective-C is verbose, but it gets the job done.” But with Swift, however, I find reading and writing code very pleasing ...
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