Evolution

Pitches The Pitches category is an area for pitching ideas for evolution of the Swift language prior to a formal review. 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. 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	4775	January 18, 2018
[Pitch] Noncopyable (or "move-only") structs and enums Pitches	113	5424	February 1, 2023
SE-0385: Custom Reflection Metadata Proposal Reviews	42	2431	February 1, 2023
[Returned for revision] SE-0376 (second review): Function back deployment Announcements	20	1752	February 1, 2023
Introduce `#if stdlib` or clarify `#if swift` Pitches	40	1295	February 1, 2023
SE-0387: Cross-Compilation Destination Bundles Proposal Reviews	5	1580	February 1, 2023
Counting occurrences of a substring in a string Pitches	16	3885	February 1, 2023
Enable adding `didSet`/`willSet` listeners away from definition of property Pitches	7	404	February 1, 2023
Pitch: Cross-Compilation Destination Bundles Pitches linux , packagemanager , cross-compilation	45	2973	January 31, 2023
Why is `UnsafeBufferPointer`'s `baseAddress` optional? Discussion pointers	43	1139	January 31, 2023
A Possible Vision for Macros in Swift Pitches	117	19320	January 31, 2023
SE-0386: `package` access modifier Proposal Reviews access-control , packagemanager	57	2248	January 31, 2023
SE-0382: Expression Macros Proposal Reviews	85	7917	January 30, 2023
Design Priorities for the Swift 6 Language Mode Announcements	70	6813	January 30, 2023
Serialization in Swift Discussion	136	14571	January 30, 2023
[Discussion] Inclusion of CasePaths into the language Discussion	44	5625	January 30, 2023
Can `Never` be extended to mark parameters, stored properties etc. as not existing? Discussion	20	551	January 30, 2023
Add API that makes it easier to interoperate with C callbacks Discussion callingconvention , c-interop , closure	22	1294	January 29, 2023
SE-0382 "Expression Macros" mini-pitch for updates Pitches	0	463	January 27, 2023
[Pitch] Package Registry Publish Pitches packagemanager	0	310	January 27, 2023
Why are opaque C pointers not imported as distinct types? Discussion	6	502	January 27, 2023
Package Access Level Pitches access-control	11	891	January 27, 2023
Compound variable names Pitches	36	3846	January 27, 2023
New Access Modifier: package Pitches access-control , packagemanager , module , namespaces , access-modifier	64	4280	January 27, 2023
[Pitch] Attached macros Pitches	0	343	January 27, 2023
[Pitch] Freestanding macros Pitches	0	322	January 27, 2023
[Pre-pitch] 'testable' visibility specifier instead of 'internal' for @testable? Pitches testable , unit-testing	7	922	January 26, 2023
Include argument labels in identifiers Pitches declarations , functions , labels , identifiers	25	2313	January 26, 2023
XCTest.setUp()/tearDown() vs TaskLocal.withValue() Discussion xctest , task-local	1	258	January 26, 2023
[Pitch] Reflection Pitches reflection	50	6747	January 26, 2023