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Ben Scheirman returns to the show to discuss how Swift’s built-in concurrency features, such as async/await and tasks, can be used in practice when building apps for Apple’s platforms.

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Links

• Ben on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• NSScreencast
• Combine Swift
• The Nike SNKRS app
• Discover concurrency
• Episode with Doug Gregor about Swift concurrency
• The delegate pattern
• PromiseKit
• RxSwift
• Discover Combine
• Implementing debouncing using Combine
• Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)
• Async sequences and streams
• Retrofitting existing APIs with async/await support
• Async properties
• The Just publisher
• The MainActor attribute
• Point-Free’s Combine schedulers
• Previous episode with Ben about UICollectionView
• Connecting and merging Combine publishers
• Tonal Therapy
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk