All Shows Archives — Chariot Solutions

All Shows Archives — Chariot Solutions


TechCast #87 – ETE Speaker Colin Eberhardt Talks Swift & Reactive Cocoa

March 31, 2015

Colin Eberhardt is a 2015 Philly Emerging Tech speaker who will address Swift and ReactiveCocoa. Swift debuted last year as a replacement developer language for Objective-C on apple's platforms. ReactiveCococa is a framework developed by GitHub to handle any kind of asynchronous activity in the Cocoa platform. Colin makes the case that while Swift is a good leap forward for the language, investing time in learning ReactiveCocoa can bring even more productivity and rewards in a unified way to handle event-driven background processing.

Colin will be a speaker at Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise. Learn more about this developer-friendly, Chariot-sponsored conference here.

Today we discussed:

Colin's background, and where he works at ScottLogic in the UK

Colin's blog at ScottLogic

His talk topic at ETE - Swift - a new, “more elegant” language for programming on Apple devices
A bit of history behind Reactive Cocoa, and how Swift has brought out the best in it
How Reactive Cocoa makes existing frameworks better
Reactive Cocoa’s signals
Swift’s developer community
Reactive Cocoa’s promises and futures and how they are “baked into” the Java language.

 

Resources

Colin's two-part tutorial on Reactive Cocoa:

Part 1
Part 2