Swift 6: Preparing your Xcode projects for the future

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Swift 6 will be the next major release of Apple’s programming language and aims to create a fantastic development experience. Many of the latest features we know today are part of the road toward this major version bump. By Antoine van der Lee.

This article describes:

  • What to expect from Swift 6?
  • What is the release date of Swift 6?
  • Preparing your projects for the future of Swift
  • Adapting latest concurrency features
    • It’s not all about async/await
  • A note on existentials

Swift 6 will force you to use any in front of existentials to indicate the impact on performance. I recommend reading up on existentials and deciding whether you want to start using an explicit indication of existentials today. Good read!

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