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Document features around safe interoperability
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## Working with C++ References and View Types in Swift

Swift has a new [safe interoperability](https://www.swift.org/documentation/cxx-interop/safe-interop)
model under development that makes code auditable for memory safety errors by explicitly delineating potentially
unsafe code from safe code and introducing ways to annotate lifetime contracts. We recommend giving this
new mode of interoperability a try as the rest of this section might be subsumed by these new features under
a new interoperability version in the future.

As outlined
[earlier](#member-functions-returning-references-are-unsafe-by-default),
member functions that return references, pointers, or certain structures/classes that
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