What’s new in 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, which helps in writing correct concurrent programs.
- Non-Copyable Types: Swift 6 introduces non-copyable types, enhancing memory management and performance.
- Embedded Swift: A new language subset called Embedded Swift is introduced, which can run on highly constrained systems.
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Swift's Evolution:
- Concurrency Model: The concurrency model has been refined over the years, with features like async/await, actors, and structured concurrency.
- Distributed Actors: Introduced to make it easier to build network services.
- Bi-Directional Interoperability with C: This feature was introduced to bring Swift's safety and expressivity to large cross-platform C codebases.
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Swift Ecosystem:
- Swift Package Manager: Continues to evolve, supporting a wide range of packages and tools.
- Swift on Multiple Platforms: Swift is now available on more platforms, including Windows and Linux.
- Swift's New Space on GitHub: The Swift project will be moving to a new organization on GitHub, managed by the Swift project.
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SwiftUI Integration:
- Main Actor Annotation: Views in SwiftUI are now marked with the main actor annotation, ensuring they are implicitly isolated to the main actor by default.
- Improved APIs: SwiftUI has improved its APIs to make it easier to adopt the new Swift 6 language mode in your apps.
Sessions Mentioned
For a detailed overview, you can watch the session 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.
Platforms State of the Union 5-Minute Recap
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What’s new in SwiftUI
Learn how you can use SwiftUI to build great apps for any Apple platform. Explore a fresh new look and feel for tabs and documents on iPadOS. Improve your window management with new windowing APIs, and gain more control over immersive spaces and volumes in your visionOS apps. We’ll also take you through other exciting refinements that help you make expressive charts, customize and layout text, and so much more.
Platforms State of the Union
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.