Putting My World Back Together

I have not watched WWDC videos so avidly, and with so much glee, in a decade. The last time was probably with the iPhone SDK.

And now I’m putting my world back together in my head, a little bit at a time. It’s going to take a while.

One thing you should not miss: the SwiftUI DSL is not some Apple-only magic. We can define our own DSLs in Swift 5.1. Imagine what more Apple can do with this, and imagine what you can do with this.

See the What’s New in Swift video. Also pay close attention to property wrappers.

One thing I keep wondering about — because my apps tend to be about databases — is the SwiftUI of Core Data. In my app I use value types for most things stored in the database, which Core Data doesn’t support. So this means a whole bunch of custom code.

I would love to have defined my model using a Swift DSL and used an engine that (like Core Data) stores my data in SQLite.