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Swift 3 New Features

You're reading from   Swift 3 New Features Get up to date with what`s new in Swift 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786469632
Length 142 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Keith Elliott Keith Elliott
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Preface 1. What Were They Thinking? FREE CHAPTER 2. Discovering New Territories – Linux at Last! 3. Migrating to Swift 3 to Be More Swifty 4. Changes to Swifts Core Will Have You Asking for More 5. Function and Operator Changes – New Ways to Get Things Done 6. Extra, Extra Collection and Closure Changes That Rock! 7. Hold onto Your Chair; Advanced Type Changes Are Here! 8. Oh Goodness! Look Whats New in the Foundation Framework 9. Improving Your Code with Xcode Server and LLDB Debugging 10. Exploring Swift on the Server

Swift 3 on Mac

To get up and going on a Mac, you simply need to choose the type of Swift toolchain you want to develop against. You can choose a version from the Download section. Swift on a Mac is included with Xcode, making it really easy to get started. Swift 3 requires you to have macOS 10.11.5 (El Capitan) or later and Xcode 8. Let's walk through the steps together and install Swift 3 on a Mac.

  1. Download a toolchain - Grab the latest Swift 3 release or preview candidate from the downloads page on https://swift.org/. Xcode is created and maintained by Apple, selecting a release to download from https://swift.org/ will take you to Apple's downloads section on their developer portal.

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    An Xcode toolchain is a special binary with a toolchain extension that includes Xcode and all of the tools and libraries that make up Swift (LLVM, LLDB, REPL, and other tools) all targeted at a specific Swift version. You can think of a toolchain as a bundled development environment that you...

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