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. Discussion The Evolution Discussion category is for general discussion of the evolution of the Swift language. Pitches The Pitches category is an area for pitching ideas for evolution of the Swift language prior to a formal review.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Evolution category Evolution	0	16267	January 18, 2018
SE-0458: Opt-in Strict Memory Safety Checking Proposal Reviews memory-safety	24	1376	January 22, 2025
SE-0456: Add Span-providing Properties to Standard Library Types Proposal Reviews	26	1021	January 22, 2025
[Accepted with revision] SE-0395: Observability Announcements	22	5556	January 22, 2025
Problematic `== true/false` boolean comparisons Discussion optionals , bool	22	563	January 22, 2025
Pitch: Multi-statement if/switch/do expressions Pitches	472	20798	January 22, 2025
Addressing unimplemented evolution proposals Announcements	33	5086	January 22, 2025
[Pitch] Add `remove(where:)` Method for `Set` and `Dictionary` Pitches	32	1227	January 22, 2025
[Second review] SE-0395: Observability Proposal Reviews	187	20181	November 21, 2024
[Pitch] Non-Escapable Types and Lifetime Dependency Pitches	137	13547	January 21, 2025
[Pitch] Custom Main and Global Executors Pitches	18	801	January 21, 2025
Tracking the release status of proposals Discussion	2	131	January 21, 2025
[Re-Proposal] Type only Unions Discussion type-system , typed-throws	103	4740	January 21, 2025
[question] Why is Task missing synchronously-accessible state info? Pitches concurrency	8	382	January 21, 2025
[question] How do the static members of Task work? Discussion task	4	281	January 19, 2025
[Pitch] Last expression as return value Pitches	445	11045	January 19, 2025
[Pitch] Opt-in Strict Memory Safety Checking Pitches	81	3161	January 19, 2025
Non-suspending alternative to await? Discussion concurrency	36	1387	January 19, 2025
SE-0457: Expose attosecond representation of Duration Proposal Reviews	27	715	January 19, 2025
Pitch: Add implementation for `withContiguousStorageIfAvailable()` to `Foundation.ContiguousBytes`-conforming sequence types Pitches	18	1791	January 18, 2025
[question]: (how to) re-introduce concurrent iteration runtime error for `AsyncStream` Pitches concurrency	11	1526	January 18, 2025
[Pitch] Nonescapable Standard Library Primitives Pitches	3	508	January 18, 2025
[Pitch] Method Key Paths Pitches keypaths , keypath	26	1203	January 16, 2025
Typealias conformance to protocols, why can't this simple thing be implemented? Discussion generics	56	5878	January 16, 2025
[Pitch] Inherit isolation by default for async functions Pitches concurrency	174	7885	January 16, 2025
[Prospective vision] Optional Strict Memory Safety for Swift Pitches	72	5244	January 15, 2025
[Accepted] Vision: Optional Strict Memory Safety for Swift Announcements	0	322	January 15, 2025
SE-0455: SwiftPM @testable build setting Proposal Reviews packagemanager , testing	7	404	January 13, 2025
SE-454: adopt mimalloc for Windows toolchain Proposal Reviews psg	26	697	January 12, 2025
Parameterized Extensions Pitches generics	69	14206	January 11, 2025