Paul HudsonTomorrow @mikaelacaron and I record the next @swiftovercoffee episode and we want your views for our open ballot! We're celebrating Swift turning 10, so tell us: how did it impact your life? Did it get you jobs? Did it help you go indie? Did it give you lots of fun? Tell us! 👇
Michael Critz@twostraws @mikaelacaron @swiftovercoffee I went from always struggling with Objective-C to actually mastering programming.
iriepixel@twostraws @mikaelacaron @swiftovercoffee I was always afraid of Objective-C and couldn't understand the #syntax, so I stuck to #JavaScript for quite a while. #Swift made me finally give #iOS #development another try and I love it. However, I'm just in the beginning of this journey.
Aaron Wilson@twostraws @mikaelacaron @swiftovercoffee Swift helped me believe in myself. I was never the best student so I never thought I would be able to have a job in a technical field. After I built hello world in SwiftUI for the first time I was hooked. It’s been nearly two years now since I started my journey, and I hope to land my first role soon!
Michael Rowe@twostraws Swift has reinvigorated my love of programming. While my day job doesn’t really allow me to program (and hasn’t for the last 20 years) I find joy (and some frustrations) in Swift.
Iva Horn@twostraws @mikaelacaron @swiftovercoffee It enabled me to finally follow my top career goal of developing native software for the platforms I liked most. I was jumping in joy on my couch while watching #wwdc14 💃
#ObjectiveC already was overwhelming and anything but fun. The alien frameworks and concepts I was not used to from the Web and Windows made it even harder to learn it autodidact in spare time. 😵
#Swift removed the distractions and made development for #Apple devices more accessible.
rafisaar@twostraws @mikaelacaron @swiftovercoffee Started learning #ObjectiveC many years ago, but I stopped in the middle. Now I became an Indie developer, learned Swift, and my first app (an AR game) is now in TestFlight, almost ready to be delivered.
Hope for All@twostraws @mikaelacaron @swiftovercoffee
I haven't been learning SwiftUI very long, only 14 days shy of #100daysofSwiftUI
It's been a lot of fun with enjoyable struggles to learn from.
Not sure yet if I'll go indie or try to get a steady job, but I'd like to at least push something to the App Store for the experience.
I feel like the best developers are like the best geologists. "They" say the best geologists have seen the most rocks. I'd say the best developers have seen the most code.
Stewart Lynch 🇨🇦@twostraws @mikaelacaron @swiftovercoffee Swift gave me a new lease on life. I had just been made redundant, was 63 yrs old so what was I going to do with my life? Swift came to the rescue and then 5 years later SwiftUI gave it a boost. I am forever greatful for this and for the community as a whole.
Gleb Dolgich@StewartLynch @twostraws @mikaelacaron @swiftovercoffee Your videos are excellent and very helpful, I really appreciate your efforts.
Blair@twostraws @mikaelacaron @swiftovercoffee i hated it when it was announced, I wanted them to improve ObjC instead 🙃. After a few months I understood optionals and that all my ObjC variables could be null. After that I never looked back. Swift revitalized my career, I love types.
Stephan Koopmans@twostraws @mikaelacaron @swiftovercoffee One evening while my baby son was sleeping on my tummy I just for fun tried out the Swift Playgrounds App on iPad. Liked it so much I kept playing around. 5 years and some hobby projects on the AppStore later here I am with a full time job as an iOS developer and with a nicer little side gig going with my own apps. Swift has really changed my life!