Haikuing with Swift
Summing up Swift in seventeen syllables or fewer.
Haiku is a form of traditional Japanese poetry, made up of three phrases of 5, 7, and 5 on – roughly syllables in English – that draws some inspiration from nature.
Well, it turns out code isn’t the only kind of poetry we write: I challenged folks on Twitter to write a haiku about their experience with Swift, and was overwhelmed with responses. Here are some highlights, ordered by author:
let s be hello
— Ole Begemann (@olebegemann) December 7, 2018
pray tell me what character
is at index two https://t.co/baH5K0bu3u
protocol has self
— Russ Bishop (@xenadu02) December 5, 2018
or associated type
requirements. kill me.
Now I know Swift 4,
— Evan Dekhayser (@ERDekhayser) December 5, 2018
I’ll get back to writing apps.
Wait, here comes Swift 5.
Like Schrödinger’s cat
— Levente Dimény (@leventedimeny) December 5, 2018
Value at once some and none
Until force-unwrapped
Server-side Swift lives,
— Joe Fabisevich ????????????™ (@mergesort) December 7, 2018
But can you really use it?
4-0-4, not found.
For each, map, reduce.
— 〈flex::monkey〉 (@FlexMonkey) December 6, 2018
For type inference, deduce.
For optionals, guard. #HaikuingWithSwift
defer { ending here }
— John Haney (@johnhaney) December 5, 2018
let the beginning be here
the middle is here
the compiler could
— Harlan Haskins (@harlanhaskins) December 5, 2018
not solve this expression in
reasonable time
Type existentials
— Jeff Kelley (@SlaunchaMan) December 5, 2018
What does “higher-kinded” mean?
Just compile my app
They said it would be
— Graham Lee (@iwasleeg) December 6, 2018
Objective-C without C
But that is Smalltalk
Confusing error?
— Nick Lockwood (@nicklockwood) December 7, 2018
Delete your derived data
Now it's gone away
Assume, and you shall
— Anders Mannberg (@andersmannberg) December 5, 2018
unexpectedly find nil
wherever you look
Type safety is nice
— Jon Reid (@qcoding) December 7, 2018
But to get feedback from tests
I must wait. And wait
What if we could have
— Harshil Shah (@HarshilShah1910) December 5, 2018
Objective-C but without
the baggage of C
Bye NSCoding
— Jessica Thrasher (@jessicathrasher) December 6, 2018
Conform class to Codable
No more parse by hand
let this constant be
— tj usiyan (@griotspeak) December 5, 2018
unchanged no matter what I
write in future days
Wipe away the tears
— Mikey (@wookiee) December 6, 2018
I would like to do my job
but SourceKit has crashed
My kingdom for a
— V → V, Non-Trivial, Elementary (@CodaFi_) December 5, 2018
formal specification
of its semantics
If a monad is
— SantaStraws (@twostraws) December 6, 2018
like a burrito then where
do I add the sauce?#HaikuingWithSwift
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