June 2015

This week, Apple enhanced Swift with several additions or changes, bumping it to version 2. Perhaps the biggest change was the introduction of an official error-handling model based on try/catch semantics. At first, I was skeptical about this approach when compared to other techniques (primarily the use of a Result return value), but after applying it to real-world code, I've found it to work extremely well.

Read on for more detail about the new Swift error handling model.