Swift language announcements from WWDC22

Many Swift updates were rightfully celebrated during WWDC22, with sessions focusing on language changes, tooling improvements, additions to Swift packages and more. The What’s new in Swift video provides a great overview of Swift news for the past year. In this post we would like to share our highlights about the Swift ecosystem from WWDC.

→ swift.org/blog/swift-language-updates-from-wwdc22/

Swift 5.6 and 5.7 bring major updates to the type system, concurrency, and ecosystem, with 5.6 laying the groundwork and 5.7 introducing features like shorthand optional unwrapping, regex literals, and enhanced generics with primary associated types and existential type improvements.

New workgroups for the Swift.org website, Swift-C++ interoperability, and language oversight, along with an extended Swift Mentorship Program, strengthen community involvement, while Swift-DocC’s open-source release adds support for app projects and Objective-C/C APIs.

The Swift Package Manager gains module disambiguation, plugin support for build tools and commands, and improved security with trust-on-first-use validation. Concurrency advancements include distributed actors, the Async Algorithms package for operations like zip and debounce, and new time-handling APIs, all enhancing performance and usability across platforms.