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Swift Actors: A practical example, part 1

I’ve been re-reading the Swift structured concurrency roadmap and the Swift actors proposal and noticed a note on the latter saying:

Partially available in recent main snapshots behind the flag -Xfrontend -enable-experimental-concurrency

So, naturally :nerd_face:, I downloaded the latest snapshot from Swift.org and took it for a spin to try out some actor code!

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