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Java Champion James Ward on the State of Java and JVM Languages
James Ward is a Java Champion and Google’s Kotlin product manager. In a podcast, Ward agreed that “people are still trapped in the Java world” and called default mutability in Java the “trillion-dollar mistake”. In this interview, he speaks about the state of Java, JVM languages, mutability, and functional programming.
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Programming Languages InfoQ Trends Report - October 2019
This article provides a summary of how the InfoQ editorial team currently sees the adoption of technology and emerging trends within the programming language space, as of Q3, 2019.
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App Architecture, iOS Application Design Patterns in Swift Review and Author Q&A
App Architecture, iOS Application Design Patterns in Swift by Chris Eidhof, Matt Gallagher, and Florian Kugler presents a number of architectures for iOS Swift applications, from the ubiquitous Model-View-Controller to a few more experimental ones. The book is accompanied by a set of videos that are available as a separate purchase and add a live-coding dimension to the book content.
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Swift and Objective-C Runtime Programming
Since a few months ago, a debate has been going on within the Objective-C/Swift developer community concerning the lack of dynamic features in Swift and the importance that runtime programming plays in Objective-C and Cocoa. InfoQ has spoken with Swift developers Chris Eidhof and Drew Crawford to learn more about these potential issues.
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HTTP-RPC: A Lightweight Cross-Platform REST Framework
HTTP-RPC is an open-source framework allowing developers to create and access cross-platform polyglot RESTful web services using a convenient, RPC-like metaphor, while preserving fundamental REST principles such as statelessness and uniform resource access.
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IBM's Swift on the Server
Since Swift's open-source release, IBM has been working on the project and providing libdispatch on Linux, as well as providing a Swift web-based runtime and a managed catalog of Swift projects. InfoQ spoke to Chris Bailey and Patrick Bohrer, who presented at QCon London 2016, and asked them where they see Swift going in the future.
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What's new in iOS 9: Swift and Objective-C
In this article, we are going to examine new features added to iOS and OS X El Capitan main programming languages: the recently open sourced Swift, which extends pattern matching syntax, adds feature availability and protocol extension, and overhauls error handing; Objective-C, with new interoperability features as generic collections.
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Q&A with Alex Blewitt on Swift Essentials
Less than a year ago, Apple introduced Swift to the developer community. While Objective-C is a very powerful and mature language, Apple obviously wanted to freshen up its development eco-system with a new language borrowing concepts from modern, functional and script-like languages. InfoQ caught up with Alex Blewitt, author of "Swift Essentials", a book on developing iOS apps using Swift.
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Article Series: Creating Mobile Apps - Recently New Technology and Already a Commodity?
This InfoQ article series is focused on the fast-changing world of Mobile technology. Various technologies emerged to create mobile apps and development processes start to consider mobile as first class citizens. But even though mobile already seems to be omnipresent, the future is just about to start. All this will influence the way we design, develop and test software in the coming years.