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.
Participants will work in pairs; every pair should have a Mac with Xcode 6.1.1 installed.
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.
Chris is a Dutch software developer living in Berlin (Germany). He spends most of his time building iOS and Mac apps, such as Deckset. He started UIKonf, objc.io , and wrote a book about Functional Programming in Swift.
Florian is a software developer from Berlin. He’s currently working on Deckset and on other projects on the iOS and Mac platforms. He’s also one of the co-founders of objc.io, a monthly online magazine for iOS and OS X developers, and a co-author of a book about Functional Programming in Swift.
