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Calling Swift Concurrency async code synchronously in Swift

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Sometimes you just need to shove a round peg into a square hole. Sometimes that genuinely is the best option (or perhaps more accurately: the least bad option). I find my hand is often forced by APIs I don’t control (most often Apple’s APIs). e.g. data source or delegate callbacks that are synchronous and require… Read more

Performing a delayed and/or repeating operation in a Swift Actor

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Say you want to perform some operation after a delay, and/or at regular intervals, inside a Swift actor – maybe your actor represents a weather station and you want to periodically fetch the latest weather information, automatically. How do you do that? You could punt the problem to some other code, outside the actor –… Read more