103: “What’s new in Swift 5.5”, with special guest Antoine van der Lee
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Antoine van der Lee, creator of SwiftLee, joins John to discuss the new language features that are being introduced as part of Swift 5.5 — from the brand new concurrency system, to convenience features and various improvements.

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Links

• Antoine on Twitter)
• John on Twitter)
• WeTransfer)
• SwiftLee)
• RocketSim)
• The 2019 holiday special with Antoine and Donny Wals)
• Xcode source editor extensions)
• Automatic conversions between Double and CGFloat values)
• Effectful read-only properties)
• Computed properties vs methods)
• Sendable)
• Using the if compiler directive within expressions)
• Unwrapping optionals within SwiftUI views)
• Codable synthesis for enums with associated values)
• Attaching property wrappers to function arguments)
• Antoine’s article about using property wrappers for dependency injection)
• Using static protocol APIs to create conforming instances)
• The original Swift concurrency manifesto)
• Previous episode about Swift’s concurrency features, with Doug Gregor from Apple)
• Async/await)
• NSLock)
• Actors)
• Structured concurrency)
• Async let)
• Connecting async/await to other Swift code)
• The Operation type)
• Using Combine subjects)
• Async sequences)
• Async streams)
• RxSwift)
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk)