Swift Fundamentals: Optionals

One of Swift's core features is safety and optionals tie neatly into that mindset. Developers new to Swift tend to struggle with optionals. Optionals are often seen as a hindrance instead of a powerful concept of the Swift language.

A common question developers have when they learn about optionals is "Why?" In this episode of Swift Fundamentals, we take a close look at optionals. Let's start with the obvious question "What is an optional?"

[jlecampana]

An Optional viewed as a Container is really useful to help visualize how they work underneath. Thank you.