John Sundell • 6/13/2021

Using the MainActor attribute to automatically dispatch UI updates on the main queue

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This archived Swift concurrency article details the challenge of ensuring UI updates occur on the main thread. It contrasts the traditional, error-prone method of manual DispatchQueue.main calls with Swift 5.5's new MainActor attribute, which automatically dispatches relevant code to the main queue when using async/await.

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