Slightly unhinged and very incorrect, but probably still useful
actor: lock
isolation: which specific lock
nonisolated: no lock
Sendable: thread safe
non-Sendable: not thread safe
async: I might wait
await: I'm waiting, maybe just for a lock
Task: thread
compiler: pedantic, paranoid code reviewer
@krzyzanowskim reading it again, I get why I said that. But, obviously more confusing than is was worth. I've experimented with a number of different ways to explain things and not all have worked out well.
Very sorry about that. The topic is hard enough without stuff like this being thrown around.
It is much better to just know that "nonisolated" means "no static isolation" and not think about it in terms of any other concept.
@rbsgn Haha it’s quite something that this keyword isn’t in there.
I don’t even remember at this point how I leaned it. It’s not a direct explanation of the keyword specifically, but it is talked about here.
https://www.swift.org/migration/documentation/swift-6-concurrency-migration-guide/dataracesafety
I have never written anything about it directly myself…
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