[Willamin]

> deprecate Combine and move further toward actors and async APIs

Combine is an abstraction to encapsulate changes in state over time, while actors and async APIs are abstractions to encapsulate concurrent behavior. I think these are orthogonal concerns, so they wouldn't likely drop one in favor of the other.

> SwiftUI is very dependent on Combine

As someone who's been writing SwiftUI a lot over the last year or two, I've only touched Combine a few times. Even then, I only tried it because I wanted to see how it compares to RxSwift, not because it was something I needed.

[andrekandre]

  > Combine is an abstraction to encapsulate changes in state over time

so is https://github.com/apple/swift-async-algorithms

[saagarjha]

Yeah I've never used Combine and I've written a decent amount of SwiftUI. My impression is that Swift Concurrency is the future and will slowly get more and more adoption in the APIs.