{"id":93,"date":"2026-06-11T15:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soapyfrog.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:42:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:42:48","slug":"wwdc-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soapyfrog.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/wwdc-again\/","title":{"rendered":"WWDC again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve really done very little dev in 2026, and the WWDC26 event is here and interest is piqued a little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I watched the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ssppiors2Ak?si=4AGD3_c7mA_5m_G2\">what&#8217;s new in Swift<\/a>&#8221; video and it looks like work on lifetimes (borrowing, sending, non-copyable, consuming, etc) is much improved, though not yet up to Rust-levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WWDC26: What\u2019s new in Swift | Apple\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ssppiors2Ak?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watching the presentations, it seems to me Swift is starting to look less readable than before. So much meta information on declarations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess the big push from Apple this year is Apple Intelligence, Foundation Models, Evaluations Framework and a lot of stability and cross platform improvements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My interest is not piqued enough to get back into dev this summer (beta\/preview builds, etc), but perhaps when <em>everything<\/em> 27 is released in the Autumn, I will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve really done very little dev in 2026, and the WWDC26 event is here and interest is piqued a little. I watched the &#8220;what&#8217;s new in Swift&#8221; video and it looks like work on lifetimes (borrowing, sending, non-copyable, consuming, etc) is much improved, though not yet up to Rust-levels. Watching the presentations, it seems to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swift-lang","tag-swift-lang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soapyfrog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soapyfrog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soapyfrog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soapyfrog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soapyfrog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.soapyfrog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/www.soapyfrog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soapyfrog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soapyfrog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soapyfrog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soapyfrog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}