Mastering Swift 6 - Seventh Edition: Modern programming techniques for high-performance apps in Swift 6.2

Become proficient in Swift 6 using advanced techniques and modern programming practices to effortlessly build high-performance applications

Key Features:

- Perfect your application development capabilities using the latest features of Swift 6.2

- Learn advanced techniques like concurrency, memory management, Generics, and Swift Testing

- Apply best practices in Swift to write clean, scalable, and maintainable code

- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description:

This seventh edition of Mastering Swift 6 is your ultimate guide to harnessing the full power of Swift. Whether you're aiming to optimize the performance of your applications or looking to explore the exciting new features in Swift 6.2, this book has you covered. The author distills his 28 years of experience in the Engineering and IT fields to help you dive deep into advanced concepts and techniques, such as concurrency, memory management, and Generics, all essential for creating high-performance applications.

The chapters take you on a flexible journey, covering Swift 6.2's newest features alongside advanced programming topics such as reflection, concurrency, and Generics. Packed with best practices, testing strategies, and modern programming techniques, this book equips you with the skills to develop scalable, high-performance applications with confidence.

Whether you're looking to stay competitive or simply want to excel in Swift 6, this book provides the tools and knowledge you need to succeed.

What You Will Learn:

- Optimize your application's performance to meet the demands of the modern user

- Develop readable, well-structured code by utilizing Swift development strategies

- Use reflection with the Mirror API to observe your application's execution at runtime

- Conquer advanced topics, such as concurrency, memory management, and generics

- Find out how to use result builders and how to create custom operators in Swift

- Effectively test your Swift code with the all-new Swift Testing framework

Who this book is for:

This book is for developers who have a fundamental grasp of the Swift language and aspire to take their development skills to the next level by learning about the advanced topics and techniques of the Swift language. All examples are compatible with Linux, in addition to the MacOS, iOS, iPadOS, VisionOS, and WatchOS platforms, unless otherwise noted.

Table of Contents

- The Evolution of Swift

- Closures and Result Builders

- Protocols and Protocol Extensions

- Generics

- Value and Reference Types

- Enumerations

- Reflection

- Error Handling and Availability

- Regular Expressions

- Custom Subscripting

- Property Observers and Wrappers

- Dynamic Member Lookup and Key Paths

- Grand Central Dispatch

- Structured Concurrency

- Memory Management

- Advanced and Custom Operators

- Access Controls

- Swift Testing

- Object-Oriented Programming

- Protocol-Oriented Programming

- Functional Programming with Swift