I’m excited to see not only async-await making it thoroughly into the language (in Swift 5.6), but also the extensions that enable actors and distributed actors with this general sweep of the Swift language embracing concurrency. It’s been several years in the making, and the past year has been building much of these base piecesContinue reading “What Apple might do with distributed computing”
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Concurrency, Combine, and Swift 5.5
I started a post that brings together all the moving parts that have been discussed in the various concurrency proposals that are going into Swift 5.5. They’re all accessible through GitHub, and the discussions in the public forums. The combined view of all the moving parts is complex. I was aiming to post something thisContinue reading “Concurrency, Combine, and Swift 5.5”
The evolution of “safe” and “unsafe” in the Swift programming language
There’s been a lot of motion in the last four months of the evolution of the Swift programming language that I’ve been wanting, waiting, and hoping for. The language maintainers are tackling concurrency as a first-class construct in the language. I’m following along with the language evolution proposals in the forums, and so far haveContinue reading “The evolution of “safe” and “unsafe” in the Swift programming language”
Combine and Swift Concurrency
Just before last weekend, the folks on the Swift Core Team provided what I took to be a truly wonderful gift: a roadmap and series of proposals that outline a future of embedding concurrency primitives deeper into the swift language itself. If you’re interested in the details of programming language concurrency, it’s a good read.Continue reading “Combine and Swift Concurrency”
pluggable, concurrent processing systems
It started with a thought – “Take the current path of advances with server hardware and take it to an extreme”. I was sitting on the bus and thinking about programming practices and making things more efficient. Things in this case meaning everything from “easier to program” to “uses less power to display a gazillionContinue reading “pluggable, concurrent processing systems”
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