At this year’s WWDC, Apple announced Swift: a new language for iOS and OS X development. Swift is very different from Objective C, the language currently used for development on these platforms. In particular, Swift has several language features, such as algebraic data types, pattern matching, higher-order functions, and generics, that make it suitable for functional programming. In this talk, I will give a brief overview of some of Swift’s functional features and these features can be effectively employed in everyday programming.
Wouter Swierstra is a lecturer at the University of Utrecht’s Software Technology Group. He has been working with functional languages for the past fifteen years, both in industry and academia. Most recently, he has been been writing a book together with Chris Eidhof and Florian Kugler about functional programming in Swift.
