Main swift 6 features?
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Swift 6 introduces several key features and improvements aimed at enhancing portability, performance, and the overall developer experience. Here are the main features of Swift 6:
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Data Race Safety: Swift 6 introduces a new language mode that provides data race safety guarantees, helping developers write correct concurrent programs. This feature is opt-in, allowing developers to adopt it module by module.
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Non-Copyable Types: Swift 6 introduces non-copyable types, which suppress the default copyability of Swift types. This is useful for scenarios where unique ownership is required, such as managing system resources like files.
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Embedded Swift: A new language subset called Embedded Swift is introduced, which can run on highly constrained systems like operating system kernels and microcontrollers.
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Swift Testing Framework: An all-new testing framework named Swift Testing is introduced, offering expressive APIs to simplify writing tests.
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Concurrency Improvements: Enhancements to concurrency, including improvements to generics and data race checking, are part of Swift 6.
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C++ Interoperability: Swift 6 continues to improve interoperability with C++, making it easier to integrate Swift with existing C++ codebases.
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