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I recently moved into a new (to me) house with an electric gate, the kind you operate with a remote like this Why Now I’m about as forgetful as they come, so the prospect of leaving this key at home, or worse, losing it completely, terrified me. I could, with the best of intentions, commit to leaving it in a single place or velcro sticking it to my car, but I know myself too well, so I know it would only be a matter of time until I had an oh crap moment and had to call my partner for help. ...

Beginning with Xcode 16, Swift 6 is the new default language mode for new projects. For existing projects however, it’s likely you’re running Swift 5.10 or earlier. One of the biggest changes to Swift in version 6 is the new concurrency model, which enforces thread safety at compile time, rather than crashing or causing hard to diagnose bugs at run time. It’s a lofty goal from the Swift team, and one that I think is a step in the right direction, however, and this is a big hurdle, strict concurrency is hard. Adopting it in a new codebase is more straightforward (though the error messages are still inscruitable, not helped by the decline of StackOverflow), but migrating old codebases, especially in cases when Apple themselves have not updated system libraries, is considerably harder. ...