Chapter 20
Protocol-Oriented Programming
When Apple introduced Swift during their Worldwide Developer’s conference in 2014, they promoted it as an easier, safer, and faster programming language for iOS, OS X, and watchOS development than Objective-C. While both Swift and Objective-C allow object-oriented programming, Swift goes one step further and offers protocol-oriented programming as well.
One of the biggest problems with pure object-oriented programming languages is that extending the capabilities of a class means creating additional subclasses. Then you have to create objects based on those new subclasses. This can be a clumsy solution since you now have to keep track of one or more subclasses where each subclass has a different name ...
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