Max Desiatov • 6/26/2018

How do closures and callbacks work? It's turtles all the way down

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This article explores the concepts of closures and callbacks in Swift, framing them as core abstractions for asynchronous programming. It discusses how these low-level mechanisms work, their role in managing tasks like I/O and networking, and how they fit into broader layers of software abstraction, using the 'turtles all the way down' analogy to illustrate layered systems in computer science.

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