Point-Free Videos

About Point-Free Videos

Point-Free is a video series that explores advanced topics in the Swift programming language. Each episode covers a topic that may seem complex and academic at first, but turns out to be quite simple. At the end of each episode we’ll ask “what’s the point?!”, so that we can bring the concepts back down to earth and show how these ideas can improve the quality of your code today.

Publisher

Brandon Williams & Stephen Celis

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Jan 2024

Latest episode

17 Mar 2025

Latest episodes

54 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Mar 2025

   SQL Builders: Advanced Selects

   🔒 We now have a type-safe syntax for generating `SELECT` statements using key paths to the columns we want to select, but while this syntax is nice and what many existing libraries use, we can do better. Let's introduce a more advanced syntax that leverages variadic generics and supports more complex query expressions.

2. 

   10 Mar 2025

   SQL Builders: Selects

   🔒 We begin to build a type-safe SQL query builder from scratch by familiarizing ourselves with the `SELECT` statement. We will explore the SQLite documentation to understand the syntax, introduce a type that can generate valid statements, and write powerful inline snapshot tests for their output.

3. 

   3 Mar 2025

   🆓 SQL Builders: Sneak Peek, Part 2

   🆓 We finish a sneak peek of our upcoming Structured Queries library by showing how queries built with the library can be reused and composed together, and how we can replace all of the raw queries in our application with simpler, safer query builders.

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.2 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 34 / 100

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Quality

36

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

82

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