On Apple's Love Affair With Swift In response to a recent article examining Swift, in which the author questioned the decisions behind the development of the language, Stefan Lesser selects the most relevant excerpts from an interview with Chris Lattner to answer the questions. Posted on June 26, 2018 #evolution #opinion
SE-0155 Status Update The Swift evolution proposal to Normalize Enum Case Representation is partly implemented, and this Swift Forums post lists the status for each goal of the proposal. This is a worthwhile proposal, with some nice improvements to the language, so it’s great to see progress being made. Posted on June 8, 2018 #evolution #enum
Date.now() and other calendar thoughts Dave Delong started this interesting discussion on the Swift Forums. In Dave’s opinion, the current date/time APIs of Foundation are lacking, and adding a suggested Date.now() function will only make things worse. Dave then proposes a related addition to Foundation, Clock, which would tell us the date and time of day. Posted on May 31, 2018 #evolution
Introducing Related Projects to Swift Forums As always, it’s great to see the core Swift team recognize the Swift community and it’s efforts, and in this official Swift blog post Ted kremenek announces an expansion to the Swift Forums. A new top-level category, Related Projects, is being added to the Swift Forum, creating a space for discussions relating to Swift projects developed by the community. Great stuff! Posted on May 16, 2018 #evolution
Behind-the scenes improvements in Swift 4.1 In the article Slava Pestov from the Swift compiler team focuses on some of the less visible improvements introduce in Swift 4. Slava dives into the technical details of these improvements, describing why they were introduced and how they work. Posted on May 6, 2018 #evolution
What's new in Swift? Paul Hudson has created this fantastic resource which allows us to learn what’s new in each version of Swift, with included code examples. A definite bookmark! Posted on May 3, 2018 #evolution
What’s new in Swift 4.2? Swift is evolving at an impressive pace, and the upcoming version, Swift 4.2, brings with it some great improvements. In this post, Paul Hudson describes some of these improvements, including derived enum cases and dynamic member lookup. Posted on April 27, 2018 #swift4.2 #evolution
Swift Evolution - Hashable Enhancements This is an interesting Swift evolution proposal from Karoy Lorentey and Vincent Esche. They propose enhancements to the Hashable protocol, which should make it easier for types to manually conform to the protocol. Posted on April 10, 2018 #evolution #hash
Swift 4.1 Released! Ted Kremenek with a post announcing the official release of Swift 4.1 🚀. Although this is only a minor language release, there are some really nice updates included. Onwards and upwards! Posted on March 31, 2018 #evolution #swift4.1
Swift Evolution - Introducing `Unwrappable`, a biased unwrapping protocol I really like this Swift evolution proposal from Erica Sadun and Chris Lattner. They propose an Unwrappable protocol, which introduces Optional-like behavior for any biased wrapped type. The major benefit here is that this would extend Optional syntactic sugar to any associated-type enumeration. Posted on March 26, 2018 #evolution #optional