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Multithreading and Concurrency in Swift
At WWDC 2024, several sessions discussed multithreading and concurrency, particularly focusing on Swift 6 and its new features to enhance data race safety and concurrency management.
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Swift 6 and Data Race Safety:
- Swift 6 introduces data race safety by default, turning potential data race issues into compile-time errors. This significantly improves the security and reliability of applications by preventing unexpected runtime behavior and crashes due to data races. This was highlighted in the session What’s new in Swift.
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Actors in Swift:
- Actors are a new feature in Swift that help manage concurrency by serializing access to their mutable state, ensuring that only one task can execute at a time on an actor. This helps prevent data races and makes concurrent programming safer and more manageable. This was discussed in the session A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design.
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Concurrency in Swift 6 Migration:
- The session "Migrate your app to Swift 6" discussed how adopting Swift concurrency features, such as actors and async/await, can help refactor applications to have a clearer and more robust concurrency architecture. This session emphasized the importance of transitioning to Swift 6 to leverage these concurrency improvements and ensure data race safety (Migrate your app to Swift 6).
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Testing Concurrency:
- Swift Testing now supports parallel testing by default, allowing tests to run as fast as possible. This is particularly useful for testing concurrent code, as it can help identify issues that prevent tests from running in parallel. Techniques for handling asynchronous conditions in tests were also covered in the session Go further with Swift Testing.
These sessions collectively provide a comprehensive overview of how Swift 6 enhances concurrency management, making it easier and safer to write concurrent applications.
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.
Go further with Swift Testing
Learn how to write a sweet set of (test) suites using Swift Testing’s baked-in features. Discover how to take the building blocks further and use them to help expand tests to cover more scenarios, organize your tests across different suites, and optimize your tests to run in parallel.