Rui Costa

Rui Costa

Welcome to my blog! You may find me ocasionally writting about Swift and iOS development.

Articles

Variadic Function Parameters

Variadics are one of the simplest and most overlooked features in Swift. They are used to specifcy a parameter that can accept a variable number of values.

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Structs in Rust

Rust structs are user-defined types which combine an arbitrary number of values under a new type. They are the building blocks used to model an application's domain.

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Enums in Rust

Enums are one of the ways Rust allows creating user-defined types. An enum is useful to represent a set of related values known at compile time.

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Swift, MVVM and Combine

The Combine framework provides a declarative Swift API for processing values over time, similar to other frameworks such as RxSwift, which means FRP now becomes a first-party paradigm in the iOS world!

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Codable by Example - Part 2

This is the second part of my previous article "Codable by Example". This time we'll be covering a few more scenarios when decoding JSON payloads into Swift types.

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Codable by Example

Introduced in Swift 4, Codable is a versatile mechanism allowing the conversion to and from external data representations, such as JSON payloads or Property Lists.

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