Whats new in swift
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What's New in Swift
Overview
Swift has reached a significant milestone, celebrating its 10th anniversary. Over the years, Swift has evolved to become a powerful, expressive, and safe programming language, widely adopted for app development and beyond.
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.
- Non-Copyable Types: Swift 6 introduces non-copyable types, enhancing memory management and performance.
- Embedded Swift: A new language subset designed for highly constrained systems, making Swift more versatile.
- C++ Interoperability: Improved interoperability with C++, allowing for more seamless integration between Swift and C++ codebases.
- Typed Throws: Enhancements to error handling with typed throws, providing more precise error management.
- Low-Level Synchronization Primitives: New primitives for better control over concurrent programming.
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, with cross-compilation capabilities.
- Swift Testing: New testing APIs designed for Swift, making testing more intuitive and productive.
SwiftUI Integration
SwiftUI has been updated to leverage the new Swift 6 language mode, ensuring that views are evaluated on the main actor by default. This integration simplifies the development of user interfaces with Swift's safety and performance benefits.
Community and Future
The Swift project is moving to a new organization on GitHub, ensuring better management and growth of the Swift ecosystem. The community-driven evolution process continues to play a crucial role in shaping the future of Swift.
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What’s new in SwiftUI
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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.