Async/await: what will its impact be on Swift development? How can it be compared to Combine, and will Combine be easier to reason about for new developers or not?
It was all part of
the discussion I've had earlier this week. Swift development's future is an interesting topic to discuss and leads you to topics like async/await and adopting SwiftUI.
In less than 4 months, we will know whether or not async/await is released in Swift 6. Remember we expected "Marzipan" to be announced while we only got an announcement in the end?
It's an interesting question: will async/await be fully tested and ready to be released at WWDC 2021? It's good to realize it would come with the beta of Xcode 13 and would only become final with the GM arriving in September. It gives just that extra time to increase our hope to write async code without closures everywhere later this year.
Enjoy this week's SwiftLee Weekly!