Tell me about swift 6 migration
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Swift 6 introduces several significant updates and improvements aimed at enhancing the developer experience, performance, and safety of Swift code. Here are some key points about the migration to Swift 6:
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Data-Race Safety: One of the major features of Swift 6 is the new language mode that provides compile-time data-race safety. This helps ensure that concurrent programs are free from data races, making your code safer and more reliable. You can adopt this new language mode incrementally, module by module, without needing to wait for all dependencies to migrate (Platforms State of the Union).
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Migration Guide: Swift.org provides a migration guide with insights and patterns to help you modify your code to eliminate data races. This guide is a valuable resource for understanding the best practices for migrating to Swift 6 (Platforms State of the Union).
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Incremental Adoption: The Swift 6 language mode is opt-in, allowing you to enable it when you are ready. This means you can migrate your codebase incrementally, one module at a time, and still interoperate with dependencies that may not have migrated yet (What’s new in Swift).
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Compiler Diagnostics: The new Swift compiler diagnostics will guide you towards places in your code that need fixing for data-race safety. This acts like a pair programmer, pointing out potential bugs and helping you structure your migration process (Migrate your app to Swift 6).
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New Language Features: Swift 6 also introduces several new language features, including non-copyable types and a new subset called Embedded Swift, which is designed for highly constrained systems (What’s new in Swift).
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Swift Testing: Alongside the language updates, Swift 6 introduces a new testing framework called Swift Testing, which provides expressive APIs to simplify writing tests (Platforms State of the Union).
For a detailed walkthrough of the migration process, you can refer to the session "Migrate your app to Swift 6" which covers practical steps and strategies for adopting Swift 6 in your projects.
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.
Migrate your app to Swift 6
Experience Swift 6 migration in action as we update an existing sample app. Learn how to migrate incrementally, module by module, and how the compiler helps you identify code that’s at risk of data races. Discover different techniques for ensuring clear isolation boundaries and eliminating concurrent access to shared mutable state.
Platforms State of the Union
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.