Concurrency
Dive deep into Swift’s latest concurrency changes, covering async-await, actors, and more.
Unit testing async/await Swift code
Unit tests allow you to validate code written using the latest concurrency framework and async/await. While writing tests doesn't differ ...
Thread dispatching and Actors: understanding execution
Actors ensure your code is executed on a specific thread, like the main or a background thread. They help you ...
@preconcurrency: Incremental migration to concurrency checking
The @preconcurrency attribute is part of the tools that help you incrementally migrate to strict concurrency checking. When async/await was ...
Swift 6: Preparing your Xcode projects for the future
Swift 6 will be the next major release of Apple's programming language and aims to create a fantastic development experience ...
MainActor usage in Swift explained to dispatch to the main thread
MainActor is a new attribute introduced in Swift 5.5 as a global actor providing an executor which performs its tasks ...
Detached Tasks in Swift explained with code examples
Detached tasks allow you to create a new top-level task and disconnect from the current structured concurrency context. You could ...
Task Groups in Swift explained with code examples
Task Groups in Swift allow you to combine multiple parallel tasks and wait for the result to return when all ...
Sendable and @Sendable closures explained with code examples
Sendable and @Sendable are part of the concurrency changes that arrived in Swift 5.5 and address a challenging problem of ...
AsyncSequence explained with Code Examples
AsyncSequence is part of the concurrency framework and the SE-298 proposal. Its name implies it's a type providing asynchronous, sequential, ...
AsyncThrowingStream and AsyncStream explained with code examples
AsyncThrowingStream and AsyncStream are part of the concurrency framework introduced in Swift 5.5 due to SE-314. Async streams allow you ...
Tasks in Swift explained with code examples
Tasks in Swift are part of the concurrency framework introduced at WWDC 2021. A task allows us to create a ...
Async await in Swift explained with code examples
Async await is part of the new structured concurrency changes that arrived in Swift 5.5 during WWDC 2021. Concurrency in ...
