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yeah, good point. Sorry I said Swift, but I meant Playgrounds. I guess I see Playgrounds as the interactive IDE part of SWIFT, like Visual Studio is for C++, so

yeah, good point. Sorry I said Swift, but I meant Playgrounds. I guess I see Playgrounds as the interactive IDE part of SWIFT, like Visual Studio is for C++, so I don't really separate the two in my mind. Anyway, we can agree to disagree on the other point, I just like the discussion :)

wll 9y ago
Kickstarter uses “Swift Playgrounds for iterative development and styling. Most major screens in the app get a corresponding playground where we can see a wide variety of devices, languages and data in real time.” (The Kickstarter iOS app is open-source [0]; see their playgrounds [1].) Here’s [2] Brandon Williams’ talk Finding Happiness in Functional Programming (starts at “Playground-Driven Development,” but I suggest watching the whole talk), [3] the Swift Talk episode “Playground-Driven Development” (Brandon Williams and Chris Eidhof), and [4] the Swift Talk episode “Test-Driven Reactive Programming” (Lisa Luo and Chris) wherein they build a small but complete PoC all within Playgrounds. There are many more examples, such as Chris Lattner’s own Dynamic Member Lookup proposal [5] Python Interop playground [6] and Reactive Swift’s getting started playgrounds [7]. Playgrounds are very much entangled with Swift’s core (value proposition). [0] https://github.com/kickstarter/ios-oss https://github.com/kickstarter/ios-oss [1] https://github.com/kickstarter/ios-oss/tree/master/Kickstarter-iOS.playground/Pages https://github.com/kickstarter/ios-oss/tree/master/Kickstart... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0VaIKK2ijM&feature=youtu.be&t=26m47s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0VaIKK2ijM&feature=youtu.be... [3] https://talk.objc.io/episodes/S01E51-playground-driven-development-at-kickstarter https://talk.objc.io/episodes/S01E51-playground-driven-devel... [4] https://talk.objc.io/episodes/S01E53-test-driven-reactive-programming https://talk.objc.io/episodes/S01E53-test-driven-reactive-pr... [5] https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0195-dynamic-member-lookup.md https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa... [6] https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20171204/042029.html https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mo... (download the attachment) [7] https://github.com/ReactiveCocoa/ReactiveSwift/tree/master/ReactiveSwift.playground https://github.com/ReactiveCocoa/ReactiveSwift/tree/master/R...
- zubairq 9y ago
  Wow, great set of links, thanks, I will check them out.
- diggan 9y ago
  Thanks a lot for the comment, gives me a new view of Swift. Didn't understand Playground was so embedded with the language and/or vice-versa. Very interesting.

wll 9y ago

Kickstarter uses “Swift Playgrounds for iterative development and styling. Most major screens in the app get a corresponding playground where we can see a wide variety of devices, languages and data in real time.” (The Kickstarter iOS app is open-source [0]; see their playgrounds [1].) Here’s [2] Brandon Williams’ talk Finding Happiness in Functional Programming (starts at “Playground-Driven Development,” but I suggest watching the whole talk), [3] the Swift Talk episode “Playground-Driven Development” (Brandon Williams and Chris Eidhof), and [4] the Swift Talk episode “Test-Driven Reactive Programming” (Lisa Luo and Chris) wherein they build a small but complete PoC all within Playgrounds. There are many more examples, such as Chris Lattner’s own Dynamic Member Lookup proposal [5] Python Interop playground [6] and Reactive Swift’s getting started playgrounds [7]. Playgrounds are very much entangled with Swift’s core (value proposition). [0] https://github.com/kickstarter/ios-oss https://github.com/kickstarter/ios-oss [1] https://github.com/kickstarter/ios-oss/tree/master/Kickstarter-iOS.playground/Pages https://github.com/kickstarter/ios-oss/tree/master/Kickstart... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0VaIKK2ijM&feature=youtu.be&t=26m47s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0VaIKK2ijM&feature=youtu.be... [3] https://talk.objc.io/episodes/S01E51-playground-driven-development-at-kickstarter https://talk.objc.io/episodes/S01E51-playground-driven-devel... [4] https://talk.objc.io/episodes/S01E53-test-driven-reactive-programming https://talk.objc.io/episodes/S01E53-test-driven-reactive-pr... [5] https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0195-dynamic-member-lookup.md https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa... [6] https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20171204/042029.html https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mo... (download the attachment) [7] https://github.com/ReactiveCocoa/ReactiveSwift/tree/master/ReactiveSwift.playground https://github.com/ReactiveCocoa/ReactiveSwift/tree/master/R...

zubairq 9y ago
Wow, great set of links, thanks, I will check them out.
diggan 9y ago
Thanks a lot for the comment, gives me a new view of Swift. Didn't understand Playground was so embedded with the language and/or vice-versa. Very interesting.