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• Swift language plans for 2023 emphasise concurrency and generics

  Builders of the Apple-developed Swift language intend to also move the language forward in C++ interoperability and add a Swift parser.

• Swift language speeds standard library, reworks generics

  Swift 5.7 features a smaller and faster standard library, usability improvements, and a new generics implementation that boosts performance and removes longtime bugs.

• Why SWIFT is the nuclear option of Russian financial sanctions

  Cutting Russia off from the world's largest financial messaging network is perhaps the strongest sanction yet in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

• Swift 5.5 introduces async/await, structured concurrency, and actors

  Swift 5.5 -- the latest version of Apple-developed language -- has been published with capabilities centred on concurrency and package collections.

• Apple proposes actor model for Swift concurrency

  Swift language proposal would add actors as a way to prevent data races and other common bugs in concurrent programming.

• Concurrency model proposed for Swift language

  The ‘first-class’ concurrency model would make asynchronous programming in Swift convenient, efficient, and safe, according to a roadmap outlining the plan.