Developer Spotlight: Porting Graphing Calculator from C++ to Swift

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Developer Spotlight is a series highlighting interesting Swift developers from around the world. This post is authored by Ron Avitzur, author of the Pacific Tech Graphing Calculator.

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Graphing Calculator began in 1985 in C for the 128K Macintosh in the days of 16-bit ints, black & white Quickdraw, and the 8 MHz 68000 CPU with no MMU, FPU, nor GPU. It was a simpler time. A lot has changed since then.

I have long adhered to the philosophy of “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, so the code carries many vestiges of its past – design choices which made sense at the time, but no longer serve. It has seen the CPU change from the Motorola 68K to the IBM PowerPC family, to Intel, and to ARM. It was originally written to ...

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