Evolution

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

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Evolution category Evolution	0	16523	January 18, 2018
[Pitch] Remove restrictions on generation of C artifacts Pitches packagemanager	7	142	December 8, 2025
[Pitch] Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) Generation for Swift Package Manager Pitches packagemanager	9	667	December 8, 2025
Efficient yielding accessor ABI Pitches	11	1648	December 8, 2025
[Pitch] Adding HTML coverage support Pitches packagemanager , code-coverage , swift-test	19	862	December 8, 2025
[Pitch] Documentation generation for any SwiftPM package Pitches packagemanager	26	903	December 8, 2025
SE-0501: HTML Coverage Report Proposal Reviews packagemanager	1	175	December 8, 2025
[Pitch] Advanced Observation Tracking Pitches observation	16	1600	December 7, 2025
[Pitch] Task Cancellation Shields Pitches concurrency	113	2288	December 7, 2025
Internal imports by default is very problematic for generated code Discussion	13	1160	December 6, 2025
SE-0500: Improving package creation with custom templates Proposal Reviews packagemanager	12	710	December 4, 2025
[Starter Proposal] Add Stable Sort to StdLib Pitches	72	5332	December 4, 2025
Disable "Constant inferred to have type '()'" warning when using async let Pitches	7	466	December 4, 2025
`exclusive` parameter ownership modifier Pitches ownership , span	18	713	December 4, 2025
[Pitch] Adding additional information to the ABI JSON Pitches swift-testing	8	466	December 2, 2025
#Playground macro and "swift play" idea for code exploration in Swift Discussion playground	13	3476	December 1, 2025
SE-0499: Support ~Copyable, ~Escapable in simple standard library protocols Proposal Reviews	10	977	December 1, 2025
SE-0489 Codable error descriptions PR is ready to merge Discussion	4	398	December 1, 2025
[Pitch] Exclude private initialized properties from memberwise initializer Pitches	6	384	December 1, 2025
[Pitch] Last expression as return value Pitches	458	17341	November 30, 2025
Replacing the Type Checker Discussion	151	10663	November 29, 2025
SE-0498: Expose demangle function in Runtime module Proposal Reviews	40	1826	November 28, 2025
Default parameters for getters / setters & friends Pitches	20	2880	November 28, 2025
Sugar for isolated parameters? Discussion concurrency	2	430	November 27, 2025
[Returned for revision] SE-0359: Build-Time Constant Values Announcements	3	2491	November 27, 2025
[Pitch] `~Sendable` Conformance for Suppressing Sendable Inference Pitches concurrency , sendable	40	1347	November 26, 2025
[Pitch] Extensible availability checking Pitches availability	18	1466	November 25, 2025
[Pitch] Targeted Interoperability between Swift Testing and XCTest Pitches xctest , swift-testing	18	1106	November 22, 2025
Swift Evolution Proposal — Add typeprivate Access Level Discussion	16	610	November 21, 2025
[Pitch 3] Custom Main and Global Executors Pitches	36	2990	November 21, 2025