🔮 Swift 5.8 Release: You Can Use Future Features Now

Swift 5.8 was released some time ago, so let's look at the most interesting changes that can improve your code quality

In this comprehensive article, I will take a closer look at updates and improvements that Swift 5.8 brings to the table and delineate how they can significantly benefit developers in their programming endeavors.

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So, buckle up and get ready to discover how Swift 5.8 is taking programming to the next level.

💪 Extend The Availability To Prior Releases

The implementation of your codebase just got a lot more versatile. Introducing the @backDeployed(before:) attribute, which allows you to extend the functionality of a function to older operating system releases that did not originally include it as part of the Application Binary Interface (ABI).

To illustrate this, let’s consider a scenario where a struct named Temperature is introduced in a macOS Software Development Kit(SDK) in macOS 12.