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	1	1565	January 18, 2018
Unlock Existential Types for All Protocols Pitches associatedtype , protocol , existential	23	954	September 29, 2020
SE-0289 (review #2): Result Builders Proposal Reviews	69	3571	September 29, 2020
Syntax for existential type as a box for generic type Discussion	1	125	September 29, 2020
Allow `self = x` in class convenience initializers Pitches	33	3536	September 29, 2020
The Link on top of the Evolution Category, e.g. "Topics related to the Swift Evolution Process." still points to the master branch Discussion	3	243	September 29, 2020
Formalizing @cdecl Pitches	20	760	September 28, 2020
Drop the keyword func of functions Pitches	5	524	September 28, 2020
Retroactive Conformances vs. Swift-in-the-OS Discussion	48	3923	September 28, 2020
Protocol Concrete Properties Pitches extensions , protocols	9	459	September 28, 2020
Language feature to define Type AKAs Pitches spm , xcode	3	277	September 28, 2020
Realtime threads with Swift Discussion	17	1009	September 26, 2020
[Draft] Allow default value for parameters in generic clause Pitches	9	2746	September 25, 2020
Mutating `[T]?` with a default value, or: returning inout, or: extending Any Discussion subscripts , coroutines	10	245	September 24, 2020
If / else expressions Pitches	101	5325	September 24, 2020
Function Return Type Pitches	5	551	September 24, 2020
Proposal sanity check: assigning a case statement to a boolean Discussion	19	395	September 24, 2020
Clarify scoping behavior with local functions Pitches	18	602	September 24, 2020
Require parameter names when referencing to functions Pitches collection	93	5229	September 24, 2020
Do we need something like '#if available'? Pitches	19	935	September 24, 2020
Partially applied generics Pitches	12	364	September 23, 2020
[Review 2] SE-0289: Function Builders Announcements	3	371	September 23, 2020
Implicit type name inference when using constructor to build parameter value Pitches	3	131	September 23, 2020
Tuples conform to Equatable, Comparable, and Hashable Pitches	43	2562	September 23, 2020
Make `IndexingIterator.position` public Pitches	8	275	September 22, 2020
Lifting the "Self or associated type" constraint on existentials Pitches	157	11615	September 22, 2020
Enable module names to be type aliased Pitches typealias	5	370	September 22, 2020
[Reflection] Selectively keep the reflection metadata Discussion reflection	5	424	September 22, 2020
SE-0289: Function Builders Proposal Reviews	142	9149	September 22, 2020
Lazyweb: citation for "stored globals have stable addresses"? Discussion	3	336	September 21, 2020