Concurrency
Dive deep into Swift’s latest concurrency changes, covering async-await, actors, and more.
Async let explained: call async functions in parallel
Async let is part of Swift's concurrency framework and allows instantiating a constant asynchronously. The concurrency framework introduced the concept of async-await, which results in structured concurrency and more readable code for asynchronous methods. If you're new to async-await, it's recommended first to read my article Async await in Swift ...
Actors in Swift: how to use and prevent data races
Swift Actors are new in Swift 5.5 and are part of the big concurrency changes at WWDC 2021. Before actors, data races were a common exception to run into. So before we dive into Actors with isolated and nonisolated access, it's good to understand what Data Races are and to ...
