What’s new in Swift (2-minute recap)
I've watched the WWDC session "What’s new in Swift", here's what you need to know.
The compiler now surfaces a warning when errors are not handled inside a Task.
It was really easy to ignore these errors without even realizing it, so I'm glad there's now a warning by default.
When you use different visibility levels for the properties of a struct, Swift now generates an initializer for each visibility level.
Thanks to the alignment of OS version numbers, there's now a blanket statement to refer to all of them at once.
Warnings can be ignored on a per function basis.
And they can also be enabled on a per function basis.
The module selector operator (`::`) has made its way to Swift, allowing us to disambiguate naming collisions.
That's all for this article!
These are the additions to Swift itself, but the WWDC session also covers a few more topics, like Swift's Standard Library,
So I recommend you give it a look: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/262/
