Ted Kremenek, manager of the Languages and Runtimes team at Apple, joins John to talk about Swift 5 — focusing on ABI stability and what it means for the future of the language, how the underpinnings of String have been improved in this release, how Apple is using Swift internally, and much more.

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Links

• Ted on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• ABI Stability and More
• Enforce Exclusive Access to Memory
• Plan for module stability
• String’s ABI and UTF-8
• SwiftNIO
• Reflection in Swift
• Swift’s Reflective Underpinnings
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk