Evolution

Proposal Reviews This category is for posting Swift Evolution proposals for review and feedback. 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. 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	7205	January 18, 2018
Major evolution of the type system, including protocol improvements, etc Pitches	5	487	May 30, 2023
Is “some” keyword really necessary? Discussion	23	917	May 29, 2023
SE-0399: Tuple of value pack expansion Proposal Reviews	8	1152	May 28, 2023
`@convention(thin)` function pointers Pitches	10	896	May 28, 2023
Multiple Types Pitches	51	1862	May 26, 2023
Override weak var Pitches override , weak	0	240	May 28, 2023
[Pitch] `@OptionSet` macro Pitches	155	5013	May 27, 2023
Strong typealiases (alternatively: “i have too many Array-oids”) Discussion	23	635	May 27, 2023
µPitch: add `Duration.nanoseconds(_:)` Pitches	15	974	May 27, 2023
[Closed] Pitch: Explicit marker for autoclosure parameters Pitches autoclosure , lazy , closure	62	2113	May 27, 2023
Pitch: Introduce `for borrow` and `for inout` to provide non-copying collection iteration Pitches ownership	52	5232	May 26, 2023
[Accepted] SE-0390: Noncopyable structs and enums Announcements	1	773	May 25, 2023
Bit fields, like in C Discussion	31	3527	May 25, 2023
Swift Package plugins for snippets Pitches packagemanager	1	551	May 25, 2023
Pitch: Variadic generic types abstracting over packs Pitches generics	51	1909	May 25, 2023
[Pitch] Introduce @objc_direct Attribute Pitches objective-c , metadata , interoperability	13	970	May 24, 2023
AnyAsyncSequence Discussion	31	5582	May 24, 2023
SE-0397 (second review): Freestanding declaration macros Proposal Reviews macros	8	1188	May 23, 2023
[Accepted] SE-0397: Freestanding declaration macros Announcements macros	0	995	May 23, 2023
What's the state of higher kind types? Discussion	12	813	May 23, 2023
[Second review] SE-0390: Noncopyable structs and enums Proposal Reviews	166	5961	May 23, 2023
A case study for `reasync` Discussion	17	2210	May 22, 2023
Extensible Enumerations for Non-Resilient Libraries Pitches	45	6109	May 22, 2023
[Accepted] SE-0293: Extend Property Wrappers to Function and Closure Parameters Announcements	7	1844	May 22, 2023
[Pitch] Observation (Revised) Pitches asyncsequence , observation , swiftui , asyncawait	80	6496	May 22, 2023
[Pitch] Observation Pitches	111	14804	March 17, 2023
Is it possible to rename keywords like `associatedtype` (in future Swift versions)? Discussion generics	11	1365	May 20, 2023
[Pitch] `init` accessors Pitches	35	2461	May 18, 2023
Using Snippets in Documentation Comments not possible? Discussion documentation , snippets , docc , swift-package	10	498	May 18, 2023