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There are a couple quickstart projects in there (one Fullstack; iOS, Backend, Shared all in a single Xcode Project) to peruse. Would love for you guys to check it out and give feedback!
- Copilot for an aesthetically pleasing heads up of how much $$ I've got as well as insights into where it's going,
- Robin hood for stocks & trading
- Excel for long term goals, targeted amounts for tithing & saving per month, and a rundown of my monthly expenses.
Fortunately it's easy to fill in the gaps with UIKit & there are some amazing people out there doing documentation (shout out to the guy at https://swiftui-lab.com/, you've saved me so much time!)
Per usual with Apple its a fantastic product launched in a buggy, incomplete state. Still a great option if you're willing to deal with the kinks.
Hopefully 2.0 will make it an even more solid (if not de facto) choice for all iOS devs!
That being said, releases like this are pretty frustrating because they seem to reflect a focusing on tiny bits of sugar (can we even call them that?) instead of features that have a much more positive influence experience. Besides "better error messages" how do any of these things improve the development experience?
`map(\.name) vs map { $0.name }`. Why...?
`callAsFunction()` feels bizarre... how is `obj()` more elegant or less confusing than `obj.callAsFunction()`.
Meanwhile the Swift dev experience still has lots of annoying bugs & usability issues (though to its credit it has improved by leaps about bounds). My personal pet peeve is that sensible compiler synthesized inits[1] still have not been implemented despite requests (and proposals!) coming up again[2] and again[3] and again[4] and again[5]
Sometimes I wonder if anyone is actually asking questions like "what value is this providing to the user?". Maybe there's so many strong opinions nothing of substance can get through the approval process?
Announcements like this[6] get me excited that the language is heading in the right direction, but it'll be a lot more convincing when the a release shows that.
[1] https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...
[2] https://forums.swift.org/t/it-should-be-possible-to-generate...
[3] https://forums.swift.org/t/explicit-memberwise-initializers/...
[4] https://forums.swift.org/t/default-struct-initializer-intern...
[5] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26224693/how-can-i-make-...
I don't disagree that FuckJerry's behavior is pretty shady, but cmon... the entire meme community is pretty much built on reposts. Isn't that the whole point of sharing stuff on social media. Why are people acting so entitled? Seems to me they just saw the huge revenue pie and want a piece.
As I understand it (and as my friend who is an SF police officer where 90% of his job is dealing with the homeless), the much larger problem is SF's (& perhaps society in general's) failure to provide institutionalized care for people with severe mental disabilities.
No amount of money, support systems, or opportunity for getting off the street is going to help people with severe schizophrenia or dementia who have no family or safety net. A lot of these people the only solution is for them to be institutionalized. Unfortunately, there isn't much of a way for someone to be institutionalized against their will (unless they are causing danger of harm to themselves or others) so they continue to live on the streets.
I think what this city really needs is a place to send people deemed in need of institutionalizing, and the ability for that to be determined. Of course that would never fly in a place like SF, but I think it would be a happier life for those people than life on the streets.
Inmates do recognize that there are perks to the job. Their outdoor camps allow for more freedom. The food is better and grown in on-site gardens. Families are allowed to use barbecue pits for their visits and can often spend the night in nearby cabins.
It's voluntary, gives inmates a change to spend outside time in low security environments (potentially seeing family), gives them a break from monotonous prison environments AND gives them 2 days off their sentence for every one day served. Not sure how this voluntary labor with significant benefits for an inmate is equivalent to slavery.
IMO non-specialty grocery stores with a few staff closely knit in the community have already been mostly eliminated by the larger corporations.