Future of swift in 2030
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Swift has been a significant focus at Apple's WWDC, marking its 10th anniversary with discussions on its evolution and future. Swift is celebrated for its safety, speed, and approachability, making it a compelling choice for both app development and more performance-sensitive and secure code. Apple is committed to expanding Swift's reach, working with the open-source community to bring it to more platforms and domains, including support for Visual Studio Code and improvements for Linux and Windows.
Swift 6 introduces new features like data race safety, a new language subset called embedded Swift for constrained systems, and improvements in portability and performance. The language continues to evolve with a focus on concurrency, interoperability, and reducing boilerplate code through macros.
For a detailed overview of Swift's new features, you can refer to the session What’s new in Swift (17:03).
Platforms State of the Union 5-Minute Recap
Watch a quick recap of the newest advancements on Apple platforms.
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.
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
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.