Silver Bullets in Swift

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Argues that three trendy fixes fail as universal solutions: protocol‑oriented programming helps compose reusable behaviors but creates over‑engineered, unmaintainable table/collection view adapters when misapplied; RxSwift/ReactiveCocoa simplifies data flows and batching but imposes a steep team learning curve, fragile UI debugging, and integration debt; Swift itself speeds new projects but brings slow compile times, painful yearly migrations and dynamic‑framework limits that inflate launch time. Practical advice: prove limits cheaply before wide adoption.

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" chapters (5)

1. 0:00Introduction to silver bullets
2. 3:09Protocol-oriented programming
3. 8:08Functional reactive programming
4. 13:07Swift as a silver bullet
5. 16:17Balancing innovation and caution

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