Migrating Combine to AsyncAlgorithms

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It’s no secret.

I’m a Combine fanboy.

I had a chip on my shoulder after missing the RxSwift bandwagon. Therefore, when Combine came out in 2019, I got serious shiny-object syndrome and used it wherever I could.

Then, in 2021, Swift Concurrency (finally) released, with ergonomics which drastically outclassed Combine for many simple use cases. 

Combine still held a cherished place in my heart. I’d built my whole network stack with the framework, and came up with all manner of excuses to resist transitioning.

Once the AsyncAlgorithms package was published in 2022, there was really no excuse left: much of the functionality in Combine was now available in Swift Concurrency.

Today, I’ll demonstrate how to migrate your Combine code over to AsyncAlgorithms, with a fully open-source tutorial project you can code along with.