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Bidirectional interoperability workgroup formed as the Swift compiler adds the ability to import and use some C++ APIs.
‘Massive’ upgrade to the Apple-developed programming language also brings new package management capabilities.
Latest version of Apple’s IDE backs Xcode Cloud CI/CD, team development features, and Swift concurrent programming using async/await and actors.
Xcode Cloud allows Apple developers to build apps and run automated tests in parallel in the cloud, directly from Xcode.
Longtime staple of development for Apple platforms slides out of the top 20 in Tiobe Index of programming language popularity.
Swift language proposal would add actors as a way to prevent data races and other common bugs in concurrent programming.
Google pulls the plug on effort to integrate the Swift language and TensorFlow machine learning library, while citing multiple achievements.
The ‘first-class’ concurrency model would make asynchronous programming in Swift convenient, efficient, and safe, according to a roadmap outlining the plan
Swift Atomics is a new open source package that allows systems programmers to build synchronization constructs in Swift
More work remains to be done in the porting effort, but Windows support is now good enough for early adopters to get started