A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to This Array

Explore the vast flexibility of Swift in this 23-minute conference talk from try! Swift NYC 2017. Dive deep into the myriad ways to populate arrays, moving beyond basic code to leverage closures, protocols, and functional programming techniques. Discover how these small collection-building challenges can unlock Swift's enormous design space and reveal its hidden complexities. Learn to harness Swift's power features for creating expert, arcane, and reusable code, perfect for testing and prototyping. Challenge the illusion of Swift's simplicity and expand your programming toolkit with insights from speaker Erica Sadun, a prolific author and Swift proposal contributor.