Swift has a special task group type called a discarding task group, which has a very specialized function: tasks that complete are automatically discarded and destroyed, ...

Each task in a Swift task group must return the same type of data as all the other tasks in the group, which is often problematic – what if you need one task group to handle ...

Swift’s task groups can be cancelled in one of three ways: if the parent task of the task group is cancelled, if you explicitly call cancelAll() on the group, or if one of your ...

Swift’s task groups are collections of tasks that work together to produce a single result. Each task inside the group must return the same kind of data, but if you use enum assoc...

If you’re executing a long-running task that has few if any suspension points, for example if you’re repeatedly iterating over an intensive loop, you can call Task.yield()&n...

Swift’s tasks use cooperative cancellation, which means that although we can tell a task to stop work, the task itself is free to completely ignore that instruction and carry...

Every task can be created with a specific priority level, or it can inherit a priority from somewhere else. But in two specific circumstances, Swift will raise the priori...

Swift tasks can have a priority attached to them, such as .high or .background, but the priority can also be nil if no specific priority was assigned. This...

If you want to read the return value from a Task directly, you should read its value using await, or use try await if it has a throwing operation...

Swift’s Task struct has a static sleep() method that will cause the current task to be suspended for a set period of time. You need to call Task.sleep()&n...