[HN Gopher] Highlights of new technologies introduced at WWDC 2021
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       Highlights of new technologies introduced at WWDC 2021
        
       Author : Austin_Conlon
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2021-06-07 20:55 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | 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.
        
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