Gentle Generics

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Introduces a lightweight approach to generics in Swift that avoids full-blown generic types by using protocols, type erasure, and helper patterns to get many benefits of generics while keeping code simple and concrete. Covers practical techniques and Swift-specific implementations for applying these patterns in real projects.

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