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SWIFT EVOLUTION
What’s new in Swift 5.9?
Although Swift 6 is looming on the horizon, the 5.x releases still have a lot to give – simpler ways to use if and switch, macros, noncopyable types, custom actor executors, and more are all coming in Swift 5.9, making yet another mammoth release.
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SWIFT EVOLUTION
What's new in Swift 5.8
Although many major Swift changes are currently percolating through Swift Evolution, Swift 5.8 itself is more of a clean up release: there are additions, yes, but there are more improvements that refine functionality that was already in widespread use. Hopefully this should make adoption much easier, particularly after the mammoth set of changes that were squeezed into Swift 5.7!
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How to lemmatize text using NLTagger
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How to create custom text input using UIKeyInput
Availability: iOS 13.4+
How to detect keyboard input using pressesBegan() and pressesEnded()
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How to group user notifications using threadIdentifier and summaryArgument
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How to convert dates and times to a string using DateFormatter
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How to make one operation wait for another to complete using addDependency()
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How to convert between camel case and snake case with Codable and keyEncodingStrategy
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How to make a network request wait for an internet connection using waitsForConnectivity
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What’s the difference between leading, trailing, left, and right anchors?
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How to set the clock in the iOS Simulator
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How to check whether one date is similar to another
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How to benchmark app launch time using XCTOSSignpostMetric.applicationLaunch
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