2020 Developer Wish List with Alex Bush

In this episode, Leo is joined by Alex Bush of Inside iOS Dev podcast to talk about their developer wish list for 2020.

Show Notes

Guest

• Alex Bush - Twitter @alex_v_bush
  • LinkedIn
  • iOS Interview Guide 
  • Inside iOS Dev Podcast

Related Episodes

• Episode 12 - iOS Developer Interviews with Alex Bush
• Episode 23 - Modularizing in Xcode with Abbey Jackson
• Inside iOS Dev - First Thoughts on SwiftUI
• Inside iOS Dev - WWDC 2019
• Inside iOS Dev - Protocol Extensions

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Podcast Update in 2020

• EmpowerApps is Moving to 3 episodes per month
• About the Inside iOS Dev Podcast

Xcode Wish List

Leo

• Improvements to Auto Completion and SourceKit
• Improvements to Playgrounds
• Brand New IDE (similar to Objective-C, iTunes, UIKit, etc...)
• XcodeGen - Swift command line tool for generating your Xcode project
• Better Support for Modularization and Swift Packages
• Fastlane - App Automation 
• swift-sh - Swift Scripting
• Speculid - Asset Management and Using SVGs

Alex

• Fix Look Up References in Xcode
• Vim Support - XVim2
• Buck - A high-performance build tool
• Guard - automate testing
• More Command Line Tools and Automation

Swift Wish List

Leo

• Add More UI to SwiftUI
• More Guidance on Complex Data Binding
• Asynchronous Multi-Threaded Parallel World of Swift - Add Async and Await
• Better Asynchronous Unit Testing
• In-App Purchases for the Watch

Alex

• Alex's thoughts on SwiftUI
• Combine and Reactive Programming vs RxSwift
• SwiftUI and UIKit interop
• Alex's thoughts on Protocol Extensions
• Instant apps?

Future-Proofing with SwiftUI

• Abstracting Implementation Details for Future Hardware
• Learn Once and Code Everywhere 
• Not Ready For Production Now But is the Future
• Perfect for the Apple Watch
• Likely to Change in the Future
• Backwards Support for UIKit/AppKit
• UIActivityIndicatorView

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Creators & Guests

Host

Leo Dion

Swift developer for Apple devices and more; Founder of BrightDigit; husband and father of 6 adorable kids

Guest

Alex Bush

Author of @iosinterviewgd co-host of @insideiosdev I post about #iOS #Swift #SwiftLang

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