Real-world iOS engineering, explained clearly.
Swift's antidote to the billion-dollar mistake. Optional is just an enum — and nil, if let, guard let, ??, !, and optional chaining all compile down to checking which case you're in.
Subclassing, overriding, and super. Designated vs convenience initializers, two-phase initialization, failable and required init, and deinit — the full lifecycle of a class, explained in memory.
Stored vs computed properties, observers, lazy, static. How properties define the memory layout and why computed = zero storage.
Value semantics vs reference semantics, static vs dynamic dispatch, and why Apple recommends structs by default. The article that changes how you think about Swift.
Raw values, associated values, recursive enums with indirect, and how the compiler picks the minimal memory representation.
Closure expressions, value capturing, capture lists, @escaping vs non-escaping, and why closures are reference types that live on the heap.
Learn to read Flame Graphs, audit async tasks with Swift Tasks, and push Processor Trace to its limits with a real CLI project that uses Swift Concurrency intensively.
Parameters, labels, inout, function types and functions as values. The gateway to closures and functional programming.
Learn to diagnose performance issues as a scientific process. Master Weight vs Self-Weight, Charge/Prune/Flatten, and scale profiling with xctrace.
if/else, exhaustive switch with pattern matching, guard as a philosophy, and how the compiler optimizes your decisions into jump tables.
