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The content from the WWDC sessions provides a comprehensive look at concurrency in Swift, particularly with the introduction of Swift 6. Here are some key points related to concurrency:

  1. 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 enhances the security and reliability of applications by preventing data races, which are common errors in concurrent programming. This is discussed in the session What’s new in Swift.

  2. Concurrency Features in Swift: Swift's concurrency model includes actors for protecting mutable state and the Sendable protocol for safe data sharing. The language also supports async/await for handling asynchronous tasks, which helps in managing concurrency more effectively. These features are highlighted in the session A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design.

  3. Migrating to Swift 6: When migrating to Swift 6, developers might encounter numerous warnings related to concurrency. The session "Migrate your app to Swift 6" provides strategies for addressing these warnings, such as enabling complete concurrency checking and making use of the main actor for UI-related tasks. This is covered in detail in the session Migrate your app to Swift 6.

  4. Concurrency Architecture: The transition to Swift's concurrency model involves organizing code to run on appropriate actors, such as the main actor for UI tasks and dedicated actors for background operations. This helps in creating a clear and maintainable concurrency architecture, as discussed in the session Migrate your app to Swift 6.

These sessions provide a thorough understanding of how Swift 6 enhances concurrency management, ensuring safer and more efficient concurrent programming.

What’s new in Xcode 16

What’s new in Xcode 16

Discover the latest productivity and performance improvements in Xcode 16. Learn about enhancements to code completion, diagnostics, and Xcode Previews. Find out more about updates in builds and explore improvements in debugging and Instruments.

Migrate your app to Swift 6

Migrate your app to Swift 6

Experience Swift 6 migration in action as we update an existing sample app. Learn how to migrate incrementally, module by module, and how the compiler helps you identify code that’s at risk of data races. Discover different techniques for ensuring clear isolation boundaries and eliminating concurrent access to shared mutable state.

What’s new in Swift

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

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.