Synchronizing Concurrent Tasks in Swift with NSLock

Seal it off!

4 min readMar 29

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Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging

This article has been developed using Xcode 14.2, and Swift 5.7.2

Prerequisites:

You will be expected to be aware of how to make a Single View Application
Some knowledge of Data Races in…

Steven Curtis

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