Swift Style

Your Code Doesn’t Smell

Your style may not match my style. Your best practices may not be mine. Every coder and development group have their own way of doing things. A code base evolves a dialect drawn from the background, experiences, and requirements of its development participants.

Code is more often read than written. Its crafting involves a process of review and clarification apart from developing algorithms and ensuring correctness. You who are writing code, the future you who reads that code, your extended team, and anyone who visits and maintains your repositories are all first-class consumers of the code you write today. Code that’s readable, consistent, and comprehensible lowers costs in terms of life span, maintainability, and error ...