What's new in Swift 5.5?
The following changes were made in Swift 5.5:
- Async await
- Async sequences
- Effectful read-only properties
- Structured concurrency
- async let bindings
- Continuations for interfacing async tasks with synchronous code
- Actors
- Global actors
- Sendable and @Sendable closures
- if for postfix member expressions
- Interchangeable use of CGFloat and Double types
- Codable synthesis for enums with associated values
- lazy now works in local contexts
- Extending property wrappers to function and closure parameters
- Extending static member lookup in generic contexts
