What’s new is swift

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What's New in Swift

Overview

This year marks a significant milestone for Swift as it celebrates its 10th anniversary. Swift has evolved considerably since its introduction, with major updates and new features enhancing its capabilities and developer experience.

Key Updates in Swift 6

  • New Language Mode: Swift 6 introduces a new language mode that ensures data race safety, expanding Swift's safety guarantees to concurrent programs.
  • Embedded Swift: A new language subset called Embedded Swift is introduced, which can run on highly constrained systems.
  • Non-Copyable Types: Swift 6 introduces non-copyable types, enhancing memory management and performance.
  • Concurrency Improvements: Significant improvements to data race checking and concurrency checking, ensuring safer concurrent programming.
  • C++ Interoperability: Enhanced interoperability with C++, making it easier to integrate Swift with existing C++ codebases.
  • Typed Throws: Introduction of typed throws, allowing functions to specify the types of errors they can throw, improving error handling.

Swift Ecosystem

  • Swift Package Manager: Continuous improvements to the Swift Package Manager, making it easier to manage dependencies and build Swift projects.
  • Swift on More Platforms: Swift is now available on more platforms, including Windows and Linux, providing a cross-platform development experience.
  • Swift Testing: New testing APIs designed for Swift, making it easier to write and maintain tests.

Community and Open Source

  • 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.
  • Community Contributions: The Swift community continues to play a vital role in the evolution of the language, contributing to its growth and development.

Additional Resources

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Relevant Sessions

  1. What’s new in Swift
  2. Platforms State of the Union

These sessions provide a comprehensive overview of the latest updates and features in Swift, as well as insights into the future direction of the language.

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Platforms State of the Union

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What’s new in Swift

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.