Swift 5: How to do Async/Await with Result and GCD
Why wait for Apple to add Async/Await to Swift when you can have it now?
7 min readApr 30, 2019
Swift 5.0 brought several new language enhancements along with ABI stability, and one of those was adding Result to the standard library. Result gives us a simpler, clearer way of handling errors in complex code such as asynchronous APIs.