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shaps80 / Scheduling-AppDelegate.swift
Last active February 16, 2022 03:14
NSNotification Scheduling Service in Swift. (the only required file is `SchedulingService.swift`)
//
// AppDelegate.swift
// Scheduling
//
// Created by Shaps Benkau on 19/02/2018.
// Copyright © 2018 152percent Ltd. All rights reserved.
//
import UIKit
@chriseidhof
chriseidhof / goroutines.swift
Created February 16, 2018 12:36
goroutines.swift
import Foundation
protocol Channel: IteratorProtocol {
func send(_ value: Element?)
}
/// A blocking channel for sending values.
///
/// `send` and `receive` must run in separate separate execution contexts, otherwise you get a deadlock.
final class BlockingChannel<A>: Channel {
@anandabits
anandabits / ClosedProtocol.swift
Created February 11, 2018 21:30
Emulating closed protocols in Swift
// This example shows how closed protocols can be emulated in Swift today.
// The technique leverages Swift's support for public (but not open) classes.
// First, it's worth observing that there is an almost trivial technique that can be used when
// it is possible to specify a (possibly abstract) superclass for all conforiming types.
// Simply declare a public (not open) base class and a protocol with a Self inheritance constraint.
// Swift does not support open subclasses of a public superclass so no classes outside the module
// will be able to meet the self inheritance constraint.
public class FooBase {}
public protocol Foo where Self: FooBase {}
void addMainThreadCheck(Class cls, SEL selector) {
#if DEBUG
void *symbol = dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, "__main_thread_add_check_for_selector");
if (!symbol) {
return;
}
void (*addCheck)(Class, SEL) = (__typeof__(addCheck))symbol;
addCheck(cls, selector);
#endif
}
@anandabits
anandabits / HKT.swift
Last active July 4, 2025 02:03
Emulating HKT in Swift
// This example shows how higher-kinded types can be emulated in Swift today.
// It acheives correct typing at the cost of some boilerplate, manual lifting and an existential representation.
// The technique below was directly inspired by the paper Lightweight Higher-Kinded Polymorphism
// by Jeremy Yallop and Leo White found at http://ocamllabs.io/higher/lightweight-higher-kinded-polymorphism.pdf
/// `ConstructorTag` represents a type constructor.
/// `Argument` represents an argument to the type constructor.
struct Apply<ConstructorTag, Argument> {
/// An existential containing a value of `Constructor<Argument>`
/// Where `Constructor` is the type constructor represented by `ConstructorTag`
extension Sequence {
func eachPair() -> Zip2Sequence<Self, DropFirstSequence<Self>> {
return zip(self, self.dropFirst())
}
}
extension Collection {
func indexed() -> [(index: Index, element: Element)] {
return zip(indices, self).map({ (index: $0, element: $1) })
@JohnSundell
JohnSundell / CrossPlatformImages.swift
Last active January 5, 2025 10:16
An easy way to make code that uses UIImage cross-platform between iOS/tvOS & macOS
// Either put this in a separate file that you only include in your macOS target
// or wrap the code in #if os(macOS) / #endif
import Cocoa
// Step 1: Typealias UIImage to NSImage
typealias UIImage = NSImage
// Step 2: You might want to add these APIs that UIImage has but NSImage doesn't.
extension NSImage {
@JohnSundell
JohnSundell / Podfile
Last active September 4, 2019 15:20
A Podfile that demonstrates how to use dependencies that use an older Swift version
target 'MyTarget' do
use_frameworks!
# Post installation script that enables the Swift 4.2 compiler's
# legacy 4.1 mode for 4.2-incompatible pods
post_install do |installer|
incompatiblePods = ['PodA', 'PodB']
installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
if incompatiblePods.include? target.name
@mikeash
mikeash / xcode.sh
Created September 15, 2017 17:07
Convince Xcode 9 not to smooth its source code font
#!/bin/bash
# Exit the script immediately on error
set -e
# We'll work in /tmp
cd /tmp
# Clone mach_override unless we already have it
if [ ! -d mach_override ]; then
@chriseidhof
chriseidhof / scanner.swift
Last active February 6, 2019 14:10
Scanning Sequences
import Foundation
// Alternatives to `Scanner` (before: `NSScanner`).
// A scanner only needs a way to peek and to move to the next token.
protocol ScannerProtocol {
associatedtype Token: Equatable
var peek: Token? { get }
mutating func moveToNextToken()