Explain it Asynchronously

Welcome to Code Completion, Episode 69! We are a group of iOS developers and educators hoping to share what we love most about development, Apple technology, and completing your code!

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Today, we discuss:

• Swift Concurrency and Async/Await
  • Structured Concurrency
    • https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10254/
    • https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10133/
    • https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10134/
    • https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10194/
  • Context Switches
  • Comparison to GCD, and if Swift Concurrency uses it
  • Concurrency vs Parallelism
  • Actors
  • Replacing Serial Queues with Actors
  • Vapor And SwiftNIO
  • Task and Task Groups
  • AsyncSequence, AsyncStream, and Combine
  • Memory management in Tasks
  • More Cool Links:
    • https://swiftrocks.com/how-actors-work-internally-in-swift
    • https://forums.swift.org/t/concurrency-in-swift-5-and-6/49337
    • https://www.avanderlee.com/swift/sendable-protocol-closures/
• Mini Review Corner:
  • USB Multimeter

Your hosts for this week:

• Spencer Curtis
• Dimitri Bouniol

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