Top Stories published by Surya Dev Blog in 2017

Why I Dislike CoreData

On a recent episode of Fatal Error, the hosts talked about why they’d never use Core Data in a new project. I’m one of those people as well. I’d definitely recommend listening to the episode, but I also thought I’d jot down my reasons for never using Core Data if I have a choice in the…


An Interesting Swift Benchmark

I recently wrote about creating extensions on Optional<String>. When I shared this post in the Swift India slack group, one of the people there pointed out to me that I could just use the nil coalescing operator instead of the extension methods I’d created.