How This Book Got Here
This book didn’t start out as a book. It began its life as a blog post (“Swift: Don’t do that”[1]) and then as a GitHub repository.[2] At the time, I was inspired by one of Natasha Murashev’s links[3] about the new open source SwiftLint[4] project, developed by JP Simard[5] and the guys at Realm.[6] Murashev writes a weekly curated Swift newsletter that covers news and articles about the language.
At that time, SwiftLint was built on what can be kindly described as extreme hacking by hooking into Swift’s then-private SourceKit services. As I wrote at the time,[7] I loved the idea behind SwiftLint but I needed a better tool for immediate use. I wanted something good enough for real code, even in imperfect form. It had to ...
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