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Colin Eberhardt is a 2015 Philly Emerging Tech speaker who will address Swift and ReactiveCocoa. Swift debuted last year as a replacement developer language for Objective-C on apple’s platforms. ReactiveCococa is a framework developed by GitHub to handle any kind of asynchronous activity in the Cocoa platform. Colin makes the case that while Swift is a good leap forward for the language, investing time in learning ReactiveCocoa can bring even more productivity and rewards in a unified way to handle event-driven background processing.
Colin will be a speaker at Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise. Learn more about this developer-friendly, Chariot-sponsored conference here.
Today we discussed:
- Colin’s background, and where he works at ScottLogic in the UK
- His talk topic at ETE – Swift – a new, “more elegant” language for programming on Apple devices
- A bit of history behind Reactive Cocoa, and how Swift has brought out the best in it
- How Reactive Cocoa makes existing frameworks better
- Reactive Cocoa’s signals
- Swift’s developer community
- Reactive Cocoa’s promises and futures and how they are “baked into” the Java language.
Resources
Colin’s two-part tutorial on Reactive Cocoa: