Future of swift
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The future of Swift, as discussed at WWDC 2024, is focused on expanding its reach and capabilities. Swift is celebrated for its safety, speed, and approachability, making it a compelling choice for performance-sensitive and secure code. Apple is committed to adopting Swift in its C code bases, which is expected to improve software quality both at Apple and across the industry.
Looking ahead, Apple is working with the open-source community to bring Swift to more platforms and domains. This includes investments in support for Swift in Visual Studio Code and other editors, expanding Linux support to include Debian and Fedora, and improving support for Windows. The new GitHub organization, swiftlang, will host critical projects for the Swift ecosystem, fostering greater collaboration.
Swift 6 introduces significant improvements, such as a new language mode that provides data race safety, enhancing Swift's safety guarantees for concurrent programs. Additionally, Swift 6 includes a new language subset called Embedded Swift, designed for highly constrained systems, and improvements like non-copyable types.
For more details on the future of Swift, you can refer to the Platforms State of the Union (27:21) and What’s new in Swift (17:03) sessions.
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.
Platforms State of the Union 5-Minute Recap
Watch a quick recap of the newest advancements on Apple platforms.
Platforms State of the Union
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.