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Swift 6 Concurrency Macro Support #173

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@bthomale

We've started adding support for Swift 6 concurrency checking to an app that uses djinni. Most of my djinni obj-c++ interfaces need to be marked with things like @MainActor (using the macro NS_SWIFT_UI_ACTOR) but I don't want to hand-modify the generated obj-c interface files, because of course they'd be overwritten the next time someone rebuilds the djinni files.

These are documented here: https://www.swift.org/migration/documentation/swift-6-concurrency-migration-guide/incrementaladoption#CObjective-C

It would be really nice if there were some syntax that would let us mark these in our djinni interfaces. I think it'd be fine if it only affected objective-C interface generation, and C++ / Java / JNI just ignored it.

We'd at the least need NS_SWIFT_UI_ACTOR, NS_SWIFT_NONISOLATED, and NS_SWIFT_SENDABLE I think? Those seem like the most important.

What I'm probably going to do for now is come up with some way to represent this in a comment, and then run some sort of post-processing script that looks for comments and replaces them with the appropriate macros.

For example, I'm thinking something simple like:
# @MainActor

And then I'd just run a script after every djinni build that searches for those comments in the obj-c headers, replacing them with the appropriate macros. The downside is that the other platforms would end up with some odd comments in their headers, but at least it would solve the problem.

It would be nice if djinni had a supported way of doing this. (Is there a cleaner way to extend djinni to add stuff like this already? Does anyone know?)

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