Since @_marker isn't (I believe) intended for use in user code, I think the situation is somewhat different. Implicit in the "underscored language features may be removed at any time" policy is that we won't break the source compatibility promise, so to t... (more…)

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Concurrency in Swift is a big and complex topic, here we look into structured concurrency and its core concepts, such as continuations, tasks, and cancellation in a practical example. (more…)