Swift, you’ve changed so much
During the crazy week of WWDC 2014—right after the announcement of Swift—I decided to spend a little time trying to implement a quick weather app using the new language. I managed to wrap it up in a few hours (and spent way too much time trying to figure out how to parse JSON with a generically-typed dictionary) and open sourced it. There it sat for all these months while several versions of Swift were released. I’ve started my latest project with Swift and decided I should upgrade this project just to see how much has changed. I’m a professional procrastinator, do not try this at home.
I kept all the changes required to get it working again in a single commit. This gives a pretty good look at how much has already changed. I originally wrote this with an Objective-C mindset, so the patterns here are quite ugly. Still, I find it pretty fascinating.
As I mentioned above, I had a hard time last summer getting my JSON parsed and resulted in taking
two different approaches—one with NSDictionary and one with Dictionary
Check it out if you’d like to see some the differences between Swift then and now:
https://github.com/jnjosh/WeatherApp-Swift/commit/663c81c94ea57348298a4fceeebd5b18798aede5