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100: “A tower of capabilities”, with special guest Chris Lattner

Swift by Sundell

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Is the Actor Metaphor a Good Fit for Swift?

Async-await is a common pattern that you can find in many different languages. But actors, I would say, is not necessarily that. The design came from being aware of the concurrency world and all the different pieces going in. And then kind of looking at what is good about, for example, the Go model,. Many other models that are popular in other languages. It's trying to synthesize and find a way that it fits well in Swift.

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