Episode 15: Mini mini M1ni
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⭐️ This Week's Topics
- The iPhones, especially the desires around a perfect iPhone mini.
- The M1 processor.
🚧 #CompleteTheCode
Last week's #CompleteTheCode:
What key API allows for Swift Arrays and Dictionaries to implement Copy-on-Write (CoW)?
1 2 3let firstArray = [0, 1, 2] var secondArray = firstArray // The underlying storage is still shared here secondArray.append(3) // The underlying storage is copied first, then updated
Be sure to tweet us with hashtag #CompleteTheCode if you know the answer!
⚠️ Compiler Error
This week's theme: Languages inspired by Objective-C!
- Hoping to improve Javascript, Objective-J was invented as a way of bringing Objective-C’s class and message sending syntax and more over to web development, but without the *’s.
- Objective-C++ is a variant of Objective-C that adds the same extensions to C++ as it does to C, effectively duplicating the implementations of classes, exception handling, and closures.
- Objective-C# is another variant of Objective-C started in 2009 after the success of the iPhone hoping to bring dynamic dispatch to C#, but was not actively maintained.
- Inspired by an off-hand remark, Objective-Rust is a toy language recently developed that adds some Objective-C syntax to Rust, for better interoperability between the two languages.
Compilation Results
This time, Johnny went first, followed by Spencer. Let's see how they did!
2. Objective-C++ is a variant of Objective-C that adds the same extensions to C++ as it does to C, effectively duplicating the implementations of classes, exception handling, and closures.
Both of our completionists thought this was true, and it is indeed a code completion! Learn More →
4. Inspired by an off-hand remark, Objective-Rust is a toy language recently developed that adds some Objective-C syntax to Rust, for better interoperability between the two languages.
They both thought this was also factual, and it is also a code completion! Learn More →
1. Hoping to improve Javascript, Objective-J was invented as a way of bringing Objective-C’s class and message sending syntax and more over to web development, but without the *’s.
Spencer wasn't so sure about this one, but unlike last week, this was still a code completion! Learn More →
Which leaves…
3. Objective-C# is another variant of Objective-C started in 2009 after the success of the iPhone hoping to bring dynamic dispatch to C#, but was not actively maintained.
…which Johnny was right to choose because this was the compiler error! As far as we know, C# already has many of the features that would have been desirable from Objective-C, so no one has made a serious attempt at Objective-C#… yet… Learn More →
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