Advances in Foundation

Ordered collection diffing:

let diff = bird.difference(from: bear)
bear.applying(diff)

Data’s storage is now always a contiguous area in memory

ContiguousBytes: withUnsafeBytes(_ body: (UnsafeRawBufferPointer) -> R)

DataProtocol, MutableDataProtocol

Compression:

let compressed = try data.compressed(using: CompressionAlgorithm.lzfse / .lz4 / .lzma / .zlib)

UnitDuration: + milliseconds, microseconds, nanoseconds, picoseconds

UnitFrequency: + framesPerSecond

UnitInformationStorage (bits, bytes, kilo, etc.)

RelativeDateTimeFormatter: for formatting dates as e.g. "2 weeks ago"

ListFormatter: for formatting lists of things in a language-specific way

NSOperationQueue: addBarrierBlock { save() }

queue.progress.totalUnitCount – set this and then show 2/10 etc.

scanner.scanUpToCharacters(from: …) returns a String directly instead of through a reference

Use FileManager.SearchPathDirectory.itemReplacementDirectory when writing files to USB / SMB

Do filesystem access on a background thread, because it might be loading from the network!

Test filesystem capabilities with URLResourceKey

Be prepared to handle errors

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