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Written by Robert Ryan on 2024-12-25 at 06:49

An article discussing these trends with links to other assessments of the issue. https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/are-reports-of-stackoverflows-fall-exaggerated/?ref=pumpingco.de

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Written by Robert Ryan on 2024-11-27 at 21:36

What is the current status of throttle (temporarily renamed _throttle) in the Swift async algorithms? I haven’t seen much news about this (and I thought _throttle was to be fixed before 1.0).

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Written by Robert Ryan on 2024-11-23 at 19:39

It has been noted before, but I wanted to quantify my impression of a discernible decline in SO activity (through Nov 2024). So, I did a quick SEDE query for SO questions (PostTypeId = 1) per month (and pro-rated Nov). This does not bode well for SO. Not pretty.

This downward trend pre-dates LLMs, but seems to have accelerated since. But a lack of quality answers on platforms like SO will diminish the training data used by LLMs (which are already infuriatingly bad for new or low-volume topics).

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Written by Robert Ryan on 2024-11-20 at 22:41

Why does the Swift Testing framework only support timeouts measured in minutes? When writing XCTestCase tests, I frequently use “expectations” measured in seconds, not minutes. If I’m unit testing something that slow, I’d generally mock the slow service with something that returned results in a reasonable timeframe. I don’t necessarily mind that they support “minutes”, but it seems odd to not support a much shorter timeout. What is the thought process here? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/testing/limitingexecutiontime

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