Writing first ray tracer

One of the many goals I had for 2017 were:

Generic Programming: The Concept

Problem

Changing the gears to Generic Programming

Practical usage of generic programming can be narrowed down to two forms:

Subclassing UILabel in 2015

UILabel is one the most smart view in UIKit family. It knows a lot about itself. If you constraint it to a certain width, the UILabel can calculate the height for itself. Another smart thing about UILabel is that is saves you machine cycles by not redrawing its content unless something is actually modified. And if you use NSAttributedString, you can in fact draw a more sophisticated text content.

Curious case of Generics Specialization with Swift

Today, I want to talk about a curious case I discovered while playing with generic programming with Swift.