Evolution

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. 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	1491	January 18, 2018
Ironing out `ManagedBuffer` API wrinkles Pitches stdlib	22	640	August 6, 2020
Typed throw functions Discussion throw , swift , error	83	2161	August 6, 2020
The state of Swift documentation Discussion	15	894	August 6, 2020
An Implementation Model for Rational Protocol Conformance Behavior Pitches generics	148	4894	August 6, 2020
Swift type checking is undecidable Discussion	24	12105	August 6, 2020
Allow Property Wrappers with Multiple Arguments to Defer Initialization when wrappedValue is not Specified Pitches propertywrapper	15	1114	August 6, 2020
Make @warn_unqualified_access applicable to all accessible declarations Pitches module , attributes , global	48	550	August 5, 2020
Rethinking Async Discussion	43	5018	August 5, 2020
Is https://apple.github.io/swift-evolution/ outdated or broken? Discussion	15	635	August 5, 2020
Set-only subscripts Pitches	44	2785	August 5, 2020
Organizing stored properties in extensions Pitches extensions , properties	3	336	August 5, 2020
Concurrency designs from other guys Discussion concurrency , asynchronous , coroutines	22	2259	August 5, 2020
Package Manager: Executable-Only Dependencies Pitches packagemanager	3	259	August 5, 2020
Memoization of Swift properties Pitches properties	25	1944	August 5, 2020
Why can't protocol which inherits from PAT but constrains its associated types be used as existential? Discussion inheritance , protocols , associatedtype	7	289	August 5, 2020
Lazy Filter Subscripts Discussion abistability , stdlib	11	579	August 4, 2020
Add a `clamp` function to Algorithm.swift Discussion	46	2107	August 3, 2020
Extensible Enumerations for Non-Resilient Libraries Pitches	31	1757	August 3, 2020
What is the point of metatypes in swift? Discussion	7	291	August 2, 2020
Lifting the "Self or associated type" constraint on existentials Pitches	123	8719	August 2, 2020
Status of generalized existentials Discussion generics , protocols	11	2150	August 2, 2020
Map Sorting Pitches	53	3031	August 1, 2020
Sort(by:) min(by:) max(by:) with keyPaths Discussion	3	212	August 1, 2020
Deprecating ManagedBufferPointer Pitches	9	399	August 1, 2020
Deferred property wrappers Pitches properties	4	269	July 31, 2020
Is it possible to expand which protocols can act as types? Discussion protocols	3	380	July 31, 2020
Exponents in Swift Discussion foundation , math	13	6009	July 30, 2020
Add Latin1 to Unicode codecs Discussion	15	839	July 30, 2020
Record initialization and destructuring syntax Pitches syntax	61	1832	July 29, 2020