First Swift Style Guide

I’ve spent a good deal of time reading the Swift manual, to learn this critical new piece of Apple Technology. All the gray-haired old timers are learning it, spending at least as much time as fresh-outs for sure. We know only too well how fast and relentless Apple pushes its technology, and those who dally will be left in the dust.

So many have asked “What constitutes good Swift coding practices?”, the stock answer being “No one knows yet”. Well, one good step forward is to more or less agree on a coding style (even thought Apple’s sample code is all over the map). It seems that Ray Wenderlich posted a Swift Style Guide  around the start of August, and I just read it.

Mostly I agree with it, and remember that this style guide is for code posted on its site, so in some sense must be more readable than code we write for ourselves. Not sure about making my tab stops 2 spaces, but I can see the logic in it – the big problem for real coders is going to be switching back and forth between older ObjC code and Swift, so different tab stops is a huge PITA.