What's new is swift
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What's New in Swift
Key Updates and Features
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Swift 6 Language Mode:
- Data Race Safety: Swift 6 introduces a new language mode that provides data race safety guarantees, making concurrent programming safer by diagnosing data races at compile time. This is a significant step forward in ensuring the correctness of concurrent programs (What’s new in Swift).
- Non-Copyable Types: Swift 6 introduces non-copyable types, which are types that cannot be copied, enhancing memory management and performance (What’s new in Swift).
- Embedded Swift: A new language subset called Embedded Swift is introduced, which can run on highly constrained systems, expanding the use cases for Swift (What’s new in Swift).
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Swift's Evolution and Community:
- GitHub Migration: The Swift project is moving to a new organization on GitHub (swiftlang), which will include the Swift Compiler foundation and many more Swift ecosystem packages (What’s new in Swift).
- Community Contributions: The Swift community continues to play a crucial role in the evolution of the language, with ongoing contributions and improvements (What’s new in Swift).
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Interoperability and Tools:
- C++ Interoperability: Enhancements in interoperability with C++ make it easier to integrate Swift with existing C++ codebases (What’s new in Swift).
- Swift Testing: New testing APIs designed for Swift are introduced, making testing more straightforward and productive (Platforms State of the Union).
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SwiftUI and Developer Experience:
- SwiftUI Enhancements: SwiftUI has gained new features like custom containers, mesh gradients, and scrolling customizations, making it more powerful and flexible for building user interfaces (Platforms State of the Union).
- Swift Assist: A new tool called Swift Assist is introduced to help developers write Swift code more efficiently (Platforms State of the Union).
Sessions Mentioned
These updates highlight the continuous evolution of Swift, making it a more robust, safe, and versatile programming language for developers.
What’s new in Swift
Join us for an update on Swift. We’ll briefly go through a history of Swift over the past decade, and show you how the community has grown through workgroups, expanded the package ecosystem, and increased platform support. We’ll introduce you to a new language mode that achieves data-race safety by default, and a language subset that lets you run Swift on highly constrained systems. We’ll also explore some language updates including noncopyable types, typed throws, and improved C++ interoperability.
Platforms State of the Union
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.
A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design
Learn the essential features and design philosophy of the Swift programming language. We’ll explore how to model data, handle errors, use protocols, write concurrent code, and more while building up a Swift package that has a library, an HTTP server, and a command line client. Whether you’re just beginning your Swift journey or have been with us from the start, this talk will help you get the most out of the language.