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