# The Optional Option

URL: /show/coder-radio/340/
> Wes joins Mike for a special Coder. They share thoughts on the costs and benefits of Optionals in Swift, uncover Mike's secret love affair with F#, and debate the true value of serverless. 

- Show: [Coder Radio](/show/coder-radio/)
- Episode: 340
- Date: 2019-01-15
- Hosts: michael, wes
- Duration: 00:57:23
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/b44de5fa-47c1-4e94-bf9e-c72f8d1c8f5d/4822dfb9-f644-40d3-b94d-e84d323df42a.mp3
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l7AtfK6lpc





### Episode Links

  * [Mark's IoT Feedback](https://pastebin.com/ACsC28u1 "Mark's IoT Feedback")
  * [IOKit](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/iokit "IOKit") — The I/O Kit framework implements non-kernel access to I/O Kit objects (drivers and nubs) through the device-interface mechanism.
  * [Does iPad Pro (2018) support IOKit?](https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/110317 "Does iPad Pro \(2018\) support IOKit?") — IOKit has included iOS support since 2.0
  * [Elixir](https://elixir-lang.org/ "Elixir") — Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications.
  * [Craft and deploy bulletproof embedded software in Elixir](https://nerves-project.org/ "Craft and deploy bulletproof embedded software in Elixir")
  * [NervesHub](https://www.nerves-hub.org/ "NervesHub") — NervesHub helps you manage firmware updates for Nerves devices.
  * [Elixir Mix Podcast](https://devchat.tv/elixir-mix/ "Elixir Mix Podcast") — A weekly discussion with Elixir developers.
  * [Optional - Swift Standard Library](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/optional "Optional - Swift Standard Library") — A type that represents either a wrapped value or nil, the absence of a value.
  * [Swift optionals explained simply](https://hackernoon.com/swift-optionals-explained-simply-e109a4297298 "Swift optionals explained simply")
  * [F# Software Foundation](https://fsharp.org/ "F# Software Foundation") — F# is a mature, open source, cross-platform, functional-first programming language
  * [Datomic Ions](https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/ions/ions.html "Datomic Ions") — Ions let you develop applications for the cloud by deploying your code to a running Datomic cluster. 
  * [Rich Hickey on Datomic Ions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thpzXjmYyGk "Rich Hickey on Datomic Ions")