Naming issues is among the two exhausting issues in laptop science, and Swift 6 has a “naming issues” drawback in the intervening time.
We’ve been repeatedly instructed that Swift 6 will embrace some adjustments that break supply compatibility with Swift 5.x. That makes excellent sense, after all. That’s what a serious semantic model must be used for. To this point so good. 👍
However what I stated there doesn’t give the entire image, and that’s the place the naming drawback is available in. There’s the Swift 6 compiler, after which there’s “Swift 6 language mode”, and you may undertake the Swift 6 compiler with out adopting the language mode. All of the strict concurrency checks and information race security options are within the language mode, and that brings the breaking adjustments.
You can begin utilizing the Swift 6 compiler now (or extra seemingly when it makes it to a beta/launch model of Xcode) after which opt-in to the language mode while you really feel like tackling the breaking adjustments. There’s no imminent deadline respiratory down your neck.
None of that is new information. The language mode has been talked about for a very long time, however the distinction is delicate and it handed me by till just lately, and it’s possible you’ll be in the identical scenario.
A a lot better particular person to speak about this is able to be Holly Borla, supervisor of the Swift Compiler Group, and it simply so occurs we just lately had her as a visitor on the Swift Package deal Indexing podcast. It was a pleasure to speak to Holly, and we lined this challenge in depth as certainly one of a number of Swift 6 subjects.
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