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Concurrency in Swift 6 is designed to make your code safer and more efficient by eliminating data races and making concurrency management more explicit and structured. Here are some key points about concurrency in Swift 6:
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Data-Race Safety: Swift 6 aims to eliminate data races by making data-race issues compile-time errors. This means that any potential data race in your code will be flagged by the compiler, allowing you to address it before it becomes a runtime issue. This is a significant improvement over previous versions where data races could lead to unpredictable behavior and crashes (What’s new in Swift).
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Actors: Actors are a new feature in Swift that help manage concurrency by serializing access to their mutable state. This means that only one task can access an actor's state at a time, preventing data races. Calls to actor methods from outside the actor are asynchronous, ensuring that the actor's state is accessed safely (A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design).
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Concurrency Checking: Swift 6 introduces strict concurrency checking, which can be enabled in your project settings. This feature helps identify parts of your code that are not concurrency-safe by emitting warnings. These warnings guide you in making necessary adjustments to ensure your code is safe to run concurrently (Migrate your app to Swift 6).
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Main Actor: The main actor is used to ensure that certain tasks are always executed on the main thread, which is crucial for UI updates. By annotating your code with the main actor, you can guarantee that UI-related tasks are performed on the main thread, avoiding potential concurrency issues (Migrate your app to Swift 6).
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Incremental Adoption: Migrating to Swift 6 and adopting its concurrency features can be done incrementally. You can start by enabling concurrency checking in specific modules or parts of your project and gradually expand it. This approach helps manage the transition without overwhelming your development process (Migrate your app to Swift 6).
For a more detailed exploration of concurrency in Swift, you can refer to the session Migrate your app to Swift 6 and A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design.
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.
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.
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.