Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #034 | WWDC 2024, AI is Not Everything

Weekly Comment

Apple has always been a pragmatic participant in the AI field, providing excellent on-device AI capabilities. However, since the rise of generative AI last year, investors, consumers, and developers alike have been eager for Apple to offer more intuitive and perceptively rich AI technologies. Given the current market demands, it is foreseeable that AI-related content will occupy a very important position at this year’s WWDC 2024.

Nevertheless, even putting AI aside, I predict that WWDC 2024 will still be the most topic-rich and significant update in recent years, based primarily on two reasons:

Firstly, it is very likely that Swift 6 will be announced at this WWDC. Since the launch of Swift 5 in 2019, the Swift community has spent five years preparing for this major version update, the longest interval in the history of Swift development. Developers will need to adapt to new language features and some disruptive updates, which will be thoroughly discussed at WWDC 2024.

Secondly, as the first hardware product in the Apple ecosystem that requires the use of SwiftUI for native application development, the early launch of Apple Vision Pro will greatly boost the development of SwiftUI. It is expected that at this conference, SwiftUI and SwiftData will receive significant functional enhancements, and Apple may also give a clear signal that SwiftUI is to be positioned as the primary UI framework. For developers who have not yet learned or used SwiftUI, this means investing more effort to master these new tools.

Given that this year’s WWDC is full of highlights, I recommend that everyone adjust their state and fully engage in the grand event a week later. AI is certainly one of the highlights, but it is by no means all there is to WWDC 2024!

In order to recharge and gather strength, my blog will also take a break this week 😎.

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