Evolution

Announcements This category is for announcements of Swift evolution proposal reviews and results, as well as other administrative announcements. Creation of new topics in this category is by site admins and Swift Core Team members only, although anyone can reply to topics once created. Proposal Reviews This category is for posting Swift Evolution proposals for review and feedback. Pitches The Pitches category is an area for pitching ideas for evolution of the Swift language prior to a formal review. Discussion The Evolution Discussion category is for general discussion of the evolution of the Swift language.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Evolution category Evolution	0	3635	January 18, 2018
[Pitch] Adding support for targets with mixed language sources Pitches packagemanager	3	486	November 28, 2022
SE-0378: Swift Package Registry Authentication Proposal Reviews	12	896	November 28, 2022
How to provide cross-module conformances without running afoul of “no retroactive conformances”? Discussion	7	265	November 28, 2022
Introduce `until let = {…}` and `repeat {…} until let =` as duals of `while let = {…}` and `repeat {…} while` Pitches	9	553	November 28, 2022
Memory management without guessing Discussion performance	16	763	November 27, 2022
Fixing modules that contain a type with the same name Discussion	30	7565	November 26, 2022
Proposal: Python's list, generator, and dictionary comprehensions Discussion	31	2290	November 26, 2022
Documenting what @MainActor actually does Discussion	2	552	November 26, 2022
A Possible Vision for Macros in Swift Pitches	96	13858	November 26, 2022
Why doesn’t `ExpressibleByDictionaryLiteral` work without an explicit `as` coercion? Discussion	3	281	November 25, 2022
The syntax for variadic generics Discussion generics , variadic-generics	28	1701	November 25, 2022
Task: Is order of task execution deterministic? Discussion bug , concurrency , task	37	4111	November 24, 2022
Pitch #3: Opt-in Reflection metadata Pitches	36	4076	November 24, 2022
Adding 0-based integer signed offset and offset range subscripts to `RandomAccessCollection` Discussion collection	17	924	November 24, 2022
Difference between `RawRepresentable<String>` and `LosslessStringConvertible`? Discussion	4	285	November 23, 2022
Deprecate @UIApplicationMain and @NSApplicationMain Pitches	4	976	November 23, 2022
Possibility of more openly documenting Swift's internals? Discussion documentation	9	942	November 22, 2022
SE-0377: borrow and take parameter ownership modifiers Proposal Reviews	32	3087	November 22, 2022
AsyncSequence algorithms + structured Concurrency Discussion concurrency , asyncsequence	12	945	November 22, 2022
[Pitch] Reflection Pitches reflection	36	3833	November 22, 2022
Cross Platform Discussion windows , linux	19	1767	November 21, 2022
Suggestion - Runtime warnings in debug builds if @MainActor methods/vars are called from background threads Discussion concurrency	17	676	November 21, 2022
[Pitch] Expression macros Pitches	21	1848	November 20, 2022
Add #self, #Self to #function, #file, #line, #column Pitches	22	6770	November 18, 2022
Updates to the @available attribute Discussion linux	5	1632	November 19, 2022
[Returned for revision] SE-0376: Function back deployment Announcements	6	659	November 18, 2022
[Pitch] `@noImplicitCopy` attribute for local variables and function parameters Pitches	7	559	November 18, 2022
[Accepted] SE-0283: Tuples conform to Equatable, Comparable, and Hashable Announcements	7	4980	November 18, 2022
Property wrappers, type annotations, ASN.1 Discussion	5	630	November 18, 2022