While I can't predict the future or comment on anything future looking, I'd like to color in some details of the complier so you have a more complete understanding of how things work, in hopes that you can use this information to inform your own decisions around adopting Swift 6. If you take a look at the Xcode support page and look at the table of Xcode versions, you'll notice the Swift column has two sets of data — the complier version, and language modes. As you stated, Swift 6 was released with Xcode 16, and you can see that in the version number of the complier in the chart. Every Xcode release has one version of the Swift complier, and so that means every app that has compiled with Xcode 16 or newer has already compiled with the Swift 6 complier. Your question here is better stated as what is the longevity of the Swift 5 language mode? The language mode (which you'll find in your project as the SWIFT_VERSION build setting) is the version of the langu
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