Javier Soto - Back to the Futures with Swift

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In this talk Javi Soto from Twitter explains how one would go about implementing a Future type in Swift, how you would add an API to be able to concatenate asynchronous, fail-able work, and how it compares to the annoying callback-hell pattern that we're used to in Objective-C. It also covers some of the problems with the way Obj-C APIs handle errors, and how we can do better in Swift.

Javi (http://www.twitter.com/javi) has been an iOS developer since 2010. He is currently an engineer on the Fabric team at Twitter. He is passionate about writing maintainable code, so I’ve dedicated a lot of time learning about Functional Programming, and is a huge fan of Swift. In his free time he plays chess, and develops an Apple Watch app called WatchChess. You can follow him at http://www.twitter.com/javi.

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