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Async/Await and the Future of Combine

Swift 5.5 is here with Xcode 13 Beta and with it comes my favorite new addition to Swift: Async/Await.

Async/await is a high level, structured model for concurrency in Swift that allows you to write expressive async code in shockingly little ceremony.

A code sample is probably best for this, so consider this example where we want to fetch an image showing the current weather conditions for the user’s location.

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