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What sits in between "everything on one machine" and talking via HTTP APIs? Distributed actors! šŸŽ­
 

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ISSUE 631  October 13th 2023

 
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Appleā€™s swift-distributed-actors library is an interesting one. Itā€™s an ambitious project with great potential, but while you can adopt async/await, tasks, and other areas of Swift concurrency incrementally, building a server app on top of distributed actors is a much bigger decision, especially while the library is still in beta.

What would help tremendously with making a decision like that is an example app. There are some samples in the repository and more awaiting merging, but wouldnā€™t it be great to have something a little more substantial? Thatā€™s Jaleel Akbashevā€™s plan with his swift-chat project that he posted to the Swift Community Showcase yesterday.

Itā€™s so great to see projects like this pop up within the community, and what Jaleel is building could turn into a great demo of an end-to-end Swift app. Yes, it covers advanced concurrency through distributed actors, but it also takes advantage of hummingbird, postgres-nio, and client technologies like swift-composable-architecture and swift-dependencies.

Iā€™m curious about what technologies like distributed actors will be used for. It sits somewhere in between ā€œeverything happens on this machineā€ and something totally distributed, like two apps that communicate via HTTP APIsĀ¹. Chat apps, like the one in this repository, seem like a good fit, but Iā€™m looking forward to seeing other uses appear over time and as we see the library hit a 1.0 release.

Jaleel is looking for feedback and has been clear that this is a work in progress, so please be gentle if you head over there. I love that heā€™s putting this project out there and want to celebrate efforts like this, though, so please do check it out.


Ā¹ I found these two articles helpful in taking my knowledge on this subject from ā€œzeroā€ to ā€œdangerously uninformedā€. šŸ˜‚

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  Tools  

 

Configuring VSCode

Yes, this isnā€™t Xcode-related, but I bet many of you also use Visual Studio Code for editing JSON, YAML, HTML, CSS, or Swift! I especially liked what Bryan Braun wrote about the built-in terminal panelā€™s usefulness. Iā€™d love Xcode to include something along these lines at some point.

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CustomAnimation

Having a set of animation APIs that are as easy to use as the ones that come with SwiftUI is wonderful, but what happens when you need a little more? Javier Nigro has some great examples of when you might consider using a CustomAnimation. šŸ‘

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Sensory feedback in SwiftUI

Stop for a second, sit still, relax and clear your mind. Do you feel that? Let it come to you naturally. Can you feel the unique vibrations of the universe? Or, is your phone doing a little vibration dance where you left it on your desk, telling you that Majid Jabrayilov wrote a blog post with some great advice on adding haptic feedback to your SwiftUI app?

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Grape

Iā€™ve seen many implementations of this visualisation in JavaScript and other languages, but I canā€™t remember ever seeing a native Swift implementation like this one from Zhen Li. Itā€™s so much better than an embedded web view!

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Adding an Info.plist file to a Swift executable

What a helpful thing to know, courtesy of Pol Piella and this forum thread.

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  macOS Development  

 

The Care and Feeding of Developer ID

I hadnā€™t seen this post from Quinn ā€œThe Eskimo!ā€ until he updated it this week, but what a tremendously useful thing it is! If youā€™re considering distributing outside the Mac App Store for the first time, this will save you so much time in silly mistakes. But Iā€™ll bet youā€™ll still get something from it, even if youā€™ve used a Developer ID for years.

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  Videos  

 

Videos from NSSpain 2023

NSSpain is a wonderful conference in a beautiful location, but if you couldnā€™t attend this yearā€™s event in person, that doesnā€™t mean you need to miss out on the presentations! Hereā€™s the complete set for you to dig into over the weekend.

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Well, it is in silicon valley! šŸ˜

(this installation made an appearance in the recent Apple event, too)

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