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	0	1596	January 18, 2018
Placeholder types Pitches	7	302	October 21, 2020
Package Manager Conditional Target Dependencies Pitches packagemanager	32	2472	October 20, 2020
Default init internal needs a workaround. Enough is enough Discussion init	48	1544	October 20, 2020
Pitch #2: Extend Property Wrappers to Function and Closure Parameters Pitches propertywrapper	50	4391	October 20, 2020
Keyword for immutable instances Pitches	78	1682	October 20, 2020
Partial type annotations Discussion	13	879	October 20, 2020
Modify Accessors Pitches	287	16631	October 19, 2020
Proposal sanity check: assigning a case statement to a boolean Discussion	33	1368	October 18, 2020
SE-0289 (review #2): Result Builders Proposal Reviews	137	7094	October 16, 2020
Variadic Generics Pitches generics	154	16167	October 16, 2020
Formalizing @cdecl Pitches	39	2280	October 16, 2020
Set-only subscripts Pitches	45	3310	October 16, 2020
[Proposal] Disallow `weak` for computed properties Pitches	2	275	October 15, 2020
Proposal or Bug fix: allow canImport to check for submodule availability Discussion swift	5	373	October 15, 2020
Updates to the @available attribute Discussion linux	4	740	October 15, 2020
Allow key paths to reference unapplied instance methods Pitches	21	1426	October 14, 2020
Why there is no subtyping relation between existential meta types? Discussion metatype , subtyping , existential	11	822	October 14, 2020
Handling future cases of enums in libraries without binary stability concerns Pitches enums	9	1157	October 13, 2020
Padding Arrays Pitches swift , array	18	757	October 13, 2020
Implicit Casts for Verified Type Information Pitches type-casting	77	1099	October 13, 2020
[Proposal] Opt-in Reflection metadata Pitches reflection	11	874	October 12, 2020
Implement Alvarez & Monteiro's "typeprivate", possibly with one or two extra restrictions Pitches	12	852	October 12, 2020
Automatic Codable conformance for enums with associated values that themselves conform to Codable Pitches	19	9772	October 11, 2020
Make function builders compatible with ExpressibleByStringInterpolation Pitches	5	264	October 10, 2020
A Few Take-Aways From the Rust Ecosystem Pitches toolchain , packagemanager , xctest	25	2391	October 10, 2020
Add an `adjacentPairs` algorithm to Sequence Pitches	37	3167	October 9, 2020
Any particular reason that Bool doesn't conform to CaseIterable? Discussion	16	692	October 9, 2020
Unlock Existential Types for All Protocols Pitches associatedtype , protocol , existential	31	2321	October 8, 2020
Associated Type Subtype Constraint Discussion	2	556	October 8, 2020