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Swift 5 New Features [Video]

By : Dee Aliyu Odumosu
Book Image

Swift 5 New Features [Video]

By: Dee Aliyu Odumosu

Overview of this book

<p>If you are already a Swift programmer, this course will get you up-to-date with all the new features in Swift 5 to improve your productivity and efficiency. </p><p>You will become fully acquainted with the new String ergonomics and improvements to the current Swift Standard Library, and discover some new examples of syntactical sugar that will let you write shorter but more powerful code. You will learn about the new result type for handling errors, thereby making your code more robust. Finally, you will learn how to migrate to Swift 5 as easily as possible. </p><p>By the end of the course, you will have gained up-to-date insights into all of Swift 5's features and will be able to code efficiently and rapidly within your projects. </p><p>The code bundle is available at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/-Swift-5-New-Features</p>
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 6
Migrating to Swift 5
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Section 3
Swift ABI Stability
Swift 5 is now ABI stable, which means that future Swift versions will be backward convertible with the current syntax. This is a very important update to Swift, because it means that app sizes will be a lot smaller, since Swift dynamic library will be built in the OS, rather than bundled with individual apps.