11: "Don't use this for evil", with special guest Mike Ash

Mike Ash joins John to talk about reference counting, learning new APIs, Swift tooling vs new language features, what if Swift would've been Objective-C 3.0 and much more.

Thanks a lot to Gabriel Roupillard, Kedar Vaidya, Christopher, Khawaja Farooq and Roberto Garrido for this episode's questions & topics! 🙏

Submit your question/topic at swiftbysundell.com/podcast, or by tweeting to @swiftbysundell.

♬ Intro & outro jingles by Dariusz Dziuk.

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Links and show notes

Mike on Twitter: @mikeash

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Plausible Labs

Friday Q&A

isKnownUniquelyReferenced() - Swift documentation

CFGetRetainCount() - Core Foundation documentation

Swift 4 Weak References

Swift ABI Stability Dashboard

Conditional conformances - Swift Evolution

Mike's GitHub