We’re half way already! Today I mostly watched concurrency sessions, with some SwiftUI bouts here and there.

• Apple’s privacy pillars in focus: The deeper dive into how private relay works in iCloud+ was quite fascinating.

• Craft search experiences in SwiftUI: Pretty impressive how little code is needed to achieve a platform-native search experience on all Apple platforms. If this is the future of the framework, sign me up!

• Demystify SwiftUI: Really informative session about SwiftUI view identity and lifetime. It also introduces new terminology—such as “inert modifier”—that will come in handy when discussing these topics.

• Meet AsyncSequence: A short and sweet session about AsyncSequence. I was wondering how this fits with Combine, especially given the lack of updates on that front, but unfortunately this didn’t shed any light on that.

• Explore structured concurrency in Swift: This session had my favorite slide in the conference so far in terms of information density.

• Meet Xcode Cloud: Built-in continuous integration in Xcode is long overdue, and I am eager to try this out.

• Protect mutable state with Swift actors - WWDC 2021 - Videos - Apple Developer: At this point it’s probably clear that concurrency is topping my list of interests this year. This one focuses on actors, which make working with synchronized data access much easier.