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• 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.