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Apple introduced several exciting updates for programming at WWDC 2024. Here are some of the key highlights:

  1. Xcode 16:

    • Code Completion: Enhanced with an on-device coding model specifically trained for Swift and Apple SDKs, providing more thorough code suggestions by using the surrounding code context like function names and comments. This feature is powered by Apple Silicon and available on macOS Sequoia.
    • Swift 6: Introduces a new language mode that provides concurrency safety guarantees, turning data races into compile-time issues, improving the correctness and safety of your code.
    • Swiftassist: A new companion for coding tasks that can answer coding questions and help with tasks like experimenting with new APIs. It uses a larger and more powerful model that runs in the cloud.
    • Debugging and Testing: New features like a single view of your backtraces, a flame graph of your profiling data in Instruments, and enhancements to localization catalogs.

  2. Swift 6:

    • Concurrency Safety: The new language mode provides data race safety guarantees, helping you write correct concurrent programs.
    • Portability and Performance: Improvements in portability, performance, and the overall developer experience.
    • Interoperability: Continued support for C and C++ interoperability, making it easier to bring Swift's safety and expressivity to large cross-platform codebases.
    • Macros: Introduction of macros to reduce repetitive boilerplate code and enable more expressive APIs.

  3. SwiftUI:

    • Scrolling Enhancements: More programmatic control over scroll views, including new scroll positions and the ability to turn off bouncing along a given axis.
    • Swift 6 Language Mode: SwiftUI has improved its APIs to make it easier to adopt the new language mode in your apps. Views in SwiftUI are now marked with the main actor annotation, ensuring they are implicitly isolated to the main actor by default.

  4. Embedded Swift:

    • New Instruction Sets: Swift is now available for embedded systems, allowing developers to build electronics projects using Swift.

For more detailed information, you can check out the following sessions:

These sessions provide a comprehensive overview of the new features and improvements in programming tools and languages introduced at WWDC 2024.

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What’s new in SwiftUI

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.

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

Platforms State of the Union

Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.