Memory Leak - Fresh Beginning

Memory Leak

A collection of 3 posts

Deep dive into Swift memory management with ARC

Deep dive into Swift memory management with ARC

It's been a while since my last post. For past few months I was busy with work, personal life and lot of things happening outside it so couldn't really commit to writing another article. However, I am back now and going to write about Swift and its memory management quirks.

When to weakify

When to weakify

Today I am going to talk about one of the discussion prone topics on iOS platforms. Detecting memory leaks and when to apply weakify. The topic came up while I was recently performing a code review and there were some discussions on whether there is a memory leak or not.

Swift - Fighting memory leaks in closures

Swift - Fighting memory leaks in closures

Swift is a great language. In fact, it's among my top 3 favorite languages. It is quite strict in terms of discipline and best practices which pay off in the long-term to offer performance and crash-free experience to end-users. There are also many ways where things can go wrong. Today