Swift Concurrency Workshop

Concurrency. We’ll start off with the basics of Swift Concurrency by exploring the async/await syntax. After that, we’ll quickly see that async/await is only the surface of Swift Concurrency. We’ll move on to explore Structured Concurrency and how we can reason about where code runs once we mark functions as asynchronous or when we spawn new tasks. Once we’ve got these basics down, we move on to advanced concepts like actors and sendable. You’ll learn about Swift Concurrency’s promises of compile-time data race protections and how this benefits us in the long run. We’ll also see how this is a major shift from the way that we write code in GCD, and how this means that migrations can sometimes be more involved than just translating syntax.

Speaker: Donny Wals