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Swift packages are a key feature of the Swift programming language, allowing developers to organize and manage code efficiently. At WWDC 2024, several sessions discussed Swift packages and their applications:
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A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design: This session introduced Swift packages as a way to organize code into modules, which can be distributed and have dependencies on other packages. The Swift Package Manager is the tool used for managing these packages, and it can be invoked from the command line or used within IDEs like Xcode or Visual Studio Code. The session demonstrated building a Swift package with components like a library, an HTTP server, and a command-line utility. Explore Swift’s features and design.
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What’s new in Swift: This session highlighted the use of Swift packages in building applications, including a demonstration of a Swift package with a REST API that returns a random cat face emoji. The session also covered cross-compiling Swift packages from macOS to Linux using the static Linux SDK, which allows for generating statically linked binaries that can run on any Linux machine. What’s new in Swift.
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Explore the Swift on Server ecosystem: This session discussed the role of Swift packages in the server ecosystem, emphasizing their importance in building server applications and their contribution to Apple's cloud services. The session also mentioned the Swift server workgroup's efforts to grow a healthy ecosystem of Swift packages for server-side development. Explore the Swift on Server ecosystem.
These sessions provide a comprehensive overview of how Swift packages are used in different contexts, from application development to server-side programming.
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.
Explore the Swift on Server ecosystem
Swift is a great language for writing your server applications, and powers critical services across Apple’s cloud products. We’ll explore tooling, delve into the Swift server package ecosystem, and demonstrate how to interact with databases and add observability to applications.