ABI Stability Strikes Back
summary
Explains Swift Module and ABI Stability: what they are, when developers need to care, and the risks they introduce. Uses an example of a potentially dangerous app crash to walk through pitfalls of stability, and builds a summary table of hazards when developing or consuming prebuilt Swift libraries and cached dependencies.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Sberbank Online build
- 5:22Crash analysis
- 7:08ABI stability
- 9:15Swift 5 and stability
- 12:23Swift Interface and libraries
- 12:43Practical example: Death Star
- 20:11Breaking changes
- 27:38Frozen and usableFromInline
- 33:38Summary and new features
- 36:53Practical solution
- 41:00Q&A
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