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Mike Zornek

WWDC 2015 Wish List

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While I won’t be at WWDC proper I will be in San Francisco the week of WWDC. I have a ticket to AltConf and otherwise expect to be mingling about.

What do I want to see announced? Here is some of my wish list.

Swift Improvements

  • Let me use Xcode’s refactor tool to refactor Swift.
  • Let me use Instruments to measure performance of Swift.
  • Introduce a tool similar to gofmt
  • Add standard library tools for processing JSON.
  • Continue to improve Obj-C Interoperability.
  • Swift versions of NSDate and NSDecimalNumber
  • Fix the “I have to make it public or double add the modules” to let tests see code issue.

Xcode

  • Introduce a cloud service version of Xcode Server.
  • Improve Xcode Templates (eg: should recommend new test file with new class).
  • Add code coverage tools.
  • Improve testing tools. (Maybe add a formal UI testing layer?)
  • Add a spell checker that is smart about function names and other symbols.
  • Stability improvements.

Others

  • Let me slide loads apps outside the App Store.
  • Improve App Store searching, browsing and discovery.
  • Formal API to iTunes Connect.
  • Third Party Siri access.

About the Author. Mike Zornek is a developer and teacher focusing on product design and development with a heavy focus on Elixir and LiveView. In between his projects, Mike helps other teams through consulting. During off hours, he enjoyed watching Phillies baseball and playing relaxing video games.

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