Zach Brass
Zach has been an iOS developer for over a decade at all different types of companies. He's also a mentor for Underdog Devs (go look them up). In his spare time, he's a dancer and dance instructor, and competes in the occasional pun competition.
Two truths and a lie:
Zach inherited the world's largest collection of reflex hammers
Zach once ate lunch with former Speaker of the UK House of Commons John Bercow
Zach is in the FAA's Registry of Airmen despite never having flown an airplane
Independent
Your job title –Senior Software Engineer
Session
It’s been nearly a decade since the introduction of Swift at WWDC 2014, and there’s no longer a question of which language new iOS developers should learn first. But Objective-C still remains a valuable skill, whether it’s for diving into legacy codebases, modernising a project to Swift, or being able to decipher an older answer on Stack Overflow that’s still the canonical way of solving a problem. In this talk, we’ll introduce Objective-C to the increasing number of iOS developers who have only ever touched Swift, and talk about some of the (remaining) unique advantages to using Objective-C.