Swift Singleton Pattern: Why shared Is Really Called an Antipattern
When developing with Swift, you encounter singletons created with a single line, static let shared, very often.
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When building an app with Swift, you may have caught an error with do-catch, only to find that the message displayed on screen was less than helpful.
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