[HN Gopher] Highlights of new technologies introduced at WWDC 2021 ___________________________________________________________________ Highlights of new technologies introduced at WWDC 2021 Author : Austin_Conlon Score : 40 points Date : 2021-06-07 20:55 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (developer.apple.com) (TXT) w3m dump (developer.apple.com) | 1cvmask wrote: | It felt like a big Sherlock keynote as Apple seems to be | expanding into our homes, cars, access systems, cross-platform | video, identity verification, ad publishing, email sanctity, | internet anonymity and so much more. Maybe their developers were | actually more efficient being WFH. | | Most of us will embrace these changes but it will leave a bunch | of point-solution vendors in the dust eventually. Or they will | adapt. | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software) | qeternity wrote: | > Most of us will embrace these changes but it will leave a | bunch of point-solution vendors in the dust eventually. | | They fired a lot of shots at a lot of people tonight. I, for | one, am very excited. | nxc18 wrote: | As someone preparing to transition from C# to Swift dev, | async/await was a big missing piece. I'll be curious to see how | quickly the ecosystem picks it up as I move forward on my | journey. | | My experience interacting with teams and devs targeting Swift is | that when Apple says "jump" you jump. | | What do people already using Swift in production think? | toddh wrote: | The @MainActor is nice. It was always bewildering to me that we | still had put UI operations on the main thread by hand. I still | don't get why we need @MainActor. The compiler should do some | sort of flow analysis and do the right thing. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-06-07 23:00 UTC)