89: A Surprising Truth That Might Shock You All

Code Completion

Welcome to Code Completion, Episode 89! 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 5.7 Changelog](https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
  • SE-0328 - Structural opaque result types
  • SE-0341 - Opaque Parameter Declarations
  • SE-0336 - Distributed Actor Isolation
  • SE-0343 - Concurrency in Top-level Code
  • SE-0340 - Unavailable From Async Attribute
  • SE-0345 - if let shorthand for shadowing an existing optional variable
  • SE-0326 - Enable multi-statement closure parameter/result type inference
  • SE-0347 - Type inference from default expressions
  • SE-0352 - Implicitly Opened Existentials
  • SE-0333 - Expand usability of withMemoryRebound
  • SE-0334 - Pointer API Usability Improvements
  • SE-0349 - Unaligned Loads and Stores from Raw Memory
  • SE-0309 - Unlock existentials for all protocols
  • SE-0358 - Primary Associated Types in the Standard Library
  • SE-0346 - Lightweight same-type requirements for primary associated types
  • SE-0353 - Constrained Existential Types
  • SE-0329 - Clock, Instant, and Duration
  • SE-0350 - Regex Type and Overview
  • SE-0338 - Clarify the Execution of Non-Actor-Isolated Async Functions
• [Active Review/Coming real soon](https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/249/whats-new-in-swift-5-7
  • SE-0351 - Regex builder DSL
  • SE-0354 - Regex Literals
  • SE-0357 - Regex-powered string processing algorithms
  • SE-0344 - Distributed Actor Runtime
  • SE-0348 - buildPartialBlock for result builders
  • SE-0356 - Swift Snippets
  • SE-0360 - Opaque result types with limited availability
• Commented Out: Dimitri’s Airport Adventure

Your hosts for this week:

• Spencer Curtis
• Dimitri Bouniol

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