Asynchronous Programming with SwiftUI and Combine: Functional Programming to Build UIs on Apple Platforms

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P. FrieseAsynchronous Programming with SwiftUI and Combinehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8572-5_14

14. Getting Started with async/await

Peter Friese¹  

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Hamburg, Germany

 

We live in an asynchronous world. As users, we have come to expect that interactions with our devices and apps yield almost instant results. But we are pretty much neglecting the fact that more often than not, the systems we interact with are distributed systems: liking a Tweet or an Instagram story, archiving an email, putting an item into your shopping basket—all these actions ultimately result in a network call, an update in a database table, and sometimes even running a piece of ...