Issue 164.  May 23rd 2024

Build your next website in Swift

Exploring the idea of using Swift, the programming language behind iPhone apps, to build websites. While not a complete replacement, it offers potential advantages:

• Fewer Errors: Swift's built-in checks can prevent website bugs.
• Familiar for Developers: Programmers can use their existing Swift knowledge.

However, current methods lack features for responsiveness (adapting to different screens) and accessibility (catering to all users).

Difference Between try, try? and try! and When to Use Them in Swift

Learn to handle errors using try, try?, and try! in Swift.

• try: Used for functions that might throw errors. You need to handle the error with do-catch blocks or propagate it.
• try?: Attempts a throwing function. If an error occurs, the result becomes nil. Useful when you don't need to handle the specific error.
• try! (or else!): Force unwraps the result of a throwing function. If an error occurs, your app crashes. Use with caution, only when you're sure the function won't throw.

Developing Embedded Applications with Swift

Using Swift for embedded development on the SwiftIO platform gives the advantages of high-level languages like Swift for complex embedded applications and explores the SwiftIO Playground Kit as a development environment.

• Challenges: Limited development environment and slow data transfer times exist.
• Solution: The author creates simulated controls to test programs in a familiar Swift environment, enabling reusable code for both embedded systems and regular computers.

This approach simplifies development and testing across platforms.