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Swift 5: start your engines

• samcat116 9y ago
  It seems like the major point of this release is just to provide ABI stability. What real world implications does this have?
  • LinaLauneBaer 9y ago
    It makes it easier for Apple and others to adopt swift on a large scale. It will probably mean new swift only frameworks will be developed by Apple after swift 5.
  • edko 9y ago
    Another major point is that they seem to be copying the memory model of Rust.
• pswenson 9y ago
  a good concurrency story looks 2 years out :( 5 will lay some foundations, hopefully Swift 6 will complete the story. a "systems" language w/o a concurrency story isn't very compelling.
  • zoul 9y ago
    Grand Central Dispatch doesn’t count?