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Swift's ties to Grand Central Dispatch for concurrency are wholly unfortunate though. I would have far preferred to see a native language take on that instead
by binarycrusader 10y ago
Swift's ties to Grand Central Dispatch for concurrency are wholly unfortunate though. I would have far preferred to see a native language take on that instead of porting GCD to every platform.
- favorited 10y agoThere will be a Swift-specific concurrency story, it's just a lower-priority since GCD is available to fill in the gap for now. Here's an overview of how theoretical language features could enable library implementations of coroutines+channels, async/await, or actors: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/proposals/Concurrency.rst https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/proposals/Co...