Episode 3: What's Clascal?

// Episode 3 was originally recorded on Monday, August 24, 2020, and was released on Wednesday, August 26, 2020.
// This episode was hosted by Dimitri Bouniol, with co-hosts Johnny Hicks, Fernando Olivares, and Spencer Curtis.

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⭐️ This Week's Topics

• Transitioning between Xcode toolchains when you want to use new SDK features, but still be able to compile from an older version of Xcode.
• Doing web development using Swift, by making use of John Sundell's Publish and Vapor.
• How to get out of tutorial hell, and what next steps a fledgling developer could take.

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This week's #CompleteTheCode:

Review the following code — why might some developers discourage the pattern shown below?

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override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView,
                        cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
    guard let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "DateCell",
                                                   for: indexPath) as? DateCell
          else { return DateCell() }
    
    cell.date = dates[indexPath.row]
    return cell
}

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⚠️ Compiler Error

1. Swift started its development as far back as 2010 as an evolution of the work Apple was already doing improving the Objective-C language with features like Automatic reference counting, zeroing weak references, and blocks.

2. Available since the very first release of Mac OS X, Java bindings to Cocoa called the Java Bridge were available to help bring new developers to the fledgling operating system, though Mac OS X 10.4 was the first release to introduce many new APIs not included in the Java bindings.

3. Now at version 4.0, Objective-C was originally invented in 1984 by Brad Cox, and production versions did not even have a concept of manual reference counting as a part of the main runtime or in FoundationKit even in NeXTStep 3.0.

4. Clascal was a language Apple developed for the Lisa Workshop development system as a version of Pascal with object oriented features, and was supported in all versions of Classic Mac OS as a way to make apps using the MacApp framework, also written in Clascal.

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