Mike Ash joins John to talk about reference counting, learning new APIs, Swift tooling vs new language features, what if Swift would've been Objective-C 3.0, and much more.

Links

• Mike on Twitter: @mikeash
• John on Twitter: @johnsundell
• Plausible Labs
• Friday Q&A
• isKnownUniquelyReferenced() - Swift documentation
• CFGetRetainCount() - Core Foundation documentation
• Swift 4 Weak References
• Conditional conformances - Swift Evolution
• Mike's GitHub
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk