Since the introduction of Swift, the iOS community has been buzzing with the words functional programming.
That’s because many features of Swift were inspired by the ones you find in functional programming languages.
These features make some tasks easier. One example is easily configurable callbacks for network requests.
While Swift is not a functional language, we can draw many lessons from functional programming to write better Swift code in our iOS apps.
Matteo has been developing apps for iOS since 2008. He has been teaching iOS development best practices to hundreds of students since 2015 and he is the developer of Vulcan, a macOS app to generate SwiftUI code. Before that he was a freelance iOS developer for small and big clients, including TomTom, Squla, Siilo, and Layar. Matteo got a master’s degree in computer science and computational logic at the University of Turin. In his spare time he dances and teaches tango.