Asinka Weight and Swift Concurrency Will Make It Easy to Write Concurrent Programming

To wrap up the 2021 season of the show, John revisits some of the key themes and topics that were discussed both on the show itself, and within the Swift community in general, throughout the year.

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Episodes that the featured clips are from

• “What’s new in Swift 5.5”, with Antoine van der Lee
• “Structured concurrency”, with Doug Gregor
• “A tower of capabilities”, with Chris Lattner
• “Concurrency beyond app development”, with Tim Condon
• “All of our wildest Swift dreams”, with Kaitlin Mahar
• “Is SwiftUI ready for production?”, with David Smith
• “Cross-platform SwiftUI”, with Malin Sundberg

Links

• Automatic conversions between Double and CGFloat values
• Conditional compilation within Swift expressions
• Codable synthesis for Swift enums
• Using dot syntax with static protocol APIs
• Actors
• Async sequences
• Using Swift’s concurrency system to run multiple tasks in parallel
• The Task.checkCancellation API
• Chris Lattner’s original concurrency manifesto
• Pull Request that adds concurrency to Publish
• Swift Server Work Group
• Task local values
• SwiftUI and UIKit interoperability
• Connecting async/await to other Swift code
• Discover SwiftUI
• Discover Concurrency
• Swift by Sundell on Twitter
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk