Most of the time we Swift programmers don’t really think about how our types – structs, classes, actors, enums, etc – are represented in memory. We just deal with them abstractly, knowing that somehow the compiler boils them down to a bunch of bytes, handling all the complexity of wrangling those bytes for us. However,… Read more
I forget this too often, and write things like: Sometimes I feel like I’m really just writing stress-tests for the Swift syntax parser. The above can actually be written a bit more simply, as: Not just fewer characters, but conceptually simpler – fewer nested parenthesis, and no nested string literals at all. See, print‘s function… Read more
If you try to copy a regular folder (what Xcode calls a “Group”) into a file list for any Build Phase, Xcode refuses. But it does work if you use a folder reference . I have been unable to deduce any reason for this.
There are several ways to hide a SwiftUI view, although they don’t all agree on what it means to hide the view. Do you want it to be invisible, or actually not there? To make it invisible you need only set its opacity to zero or use the hidden modifier. But the view will still… Read more
Actionable, a. A veiled proxy for the speaker’s laziness. Used as in “this isn’t actionable” to mean one or more of: Cannot Reproduce, n. A versatile term, often found as a formal state in bug / ticket tracking systems, which can mean various things: Crowdsourcing, n. The practice of making other people do your work… Read more
Ugh. This was annoying to figure out. If you have a framework target in Xcode with a modulemap – e.g. because you’re wrapping a C or C++ library for use in Swift – you must keep the module verifier enabled (the ENABLE_MODULE_VERIFIER build setting) for that framework, otherwise any Swift targets using that framework won’t… Read more
SwiftUI doesn’t offer anything equivalent to NSFilePromiseProvider, i.e. to write data to the drop destination. You have to ditch SwiftUI and use AppKit’s drag & drop APIs instead. FB13583826. Is that it? I know that’s not a very helpful in some sense, but I wasted days trying to figure out how to implement this very… Read more