Swift 5.10 Released

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A new Swift blog post/announcement has been posted!

Swift was designed to be safe by default, preventing entire categories of programming mistakes at compile time. Sources of undefined behavior in C-based languages, such as using variables before they’re initialized or a use-after-free, are defined away in Swift.

An increasingly important source of undefined behavior is concurrent code that inadvertently accesses memory from one thread at the same time that another thread is writing to the same memory. This kind of unsafety is called a data race, and data races make concurrent programs exceptionally difficult to write correctly. Swift solves this problem through data isolation provided by actors and tasks, which guarantees mutually exclusive access to shared mutable state. Data isolation enforcement has been under active development since 2020 when the Swift concurrency roadmap was posted.

Swift 5.10 accomplishes full...

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