Zettelkasten for Programming: Swift Concurrency: researching a complex topic

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Zettelkasten for Programmers: Processing Swift Actor Usage Advice in Depth
https://christiantietze.de/posts/2025/processing-swift-concurrency-knowledge-with-zettelkasten/

We start with Matt Massicotte's article "When should you use an actor?" to add the answer to this question to our personal knowledge -- helped by a Zettelkasten as a thinking tool.

I demonstrate how I started and how everything evolved to think more deeply about Swift actor isolation.

Some surprises along the way. Little prior knowledge required, but of course knowing Swift and the actor model would be useful!

Prior to that post, I published "Getting Over Frustratingly New Topics (Swift Concurrency) with a Zettelkasten" which outlined some key concepts in a bottom-up way to get started:
https://christiantietze.de/posts/2025/06/getting-over-frustratingly-new-topics-swift-concurrency-with-zettelkasten/