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. 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. Proposal Reviews This category is for posting Swift Evolution proposals for review and feedback.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Evolution category Evolution	0	9746	January 18, 2018
[Pitch N+1] Typed Throws Pitches	142	2593	October 1, 2023
Atomics Pitches swift-atomics	29	2245	September 30, 2023
Use string counts to short-circuit string comparisons Pitches string	47	3176	September 29, 2023
[Review] SE-0408: Pack Iteration Proposal Reviews	45	2907	September 29, 2023
[Accepted] SE-0408: Pack Iteration Announcements	0	303	September 29, 2023
A New Approach to Testing in Swift Discussion testing , xctest , unit-testing , swift-testing	90	13554	September 29, 2023
Implicit parameters...? Discussion	59	1060	September 29, 2023
Structural Sum Types (used to be Anonymous Union Types) Discussion generics , enums	71	1636	September 28, 2023
Pitch: Support LTO for Swift Pitches osize , optimizations , size , lto , binary-size	19	1329	September 28, 2023
Support for returning the result of a Guard statement Pitches guard	18	608	September 28, 2023
Algebraic Effects Pitches	23	3633	September 27, 2023
[Returned for revision] SE-0371: Isolated synchronous deinit Announcements	2	1557	September 27, 2023
Testing fatalError and friends Discussion testing , error , xctest , error-handling	52	1593	September 27, 2023
Aggregate macros Pitches macros	0	320	September 26, 2023
Embedded Swift Pitches embedded , runtime , pitch , metadata	88	12801	September 26, 2023
Macro Adoption Concerns around SwiftSyntax Discussion swift-syntax , macros	82	7532	September 25, 2023
[Accepted] SE-0363: Unicode for String Processing Announcements	1	769	September 25, 2023
Status check: Typed throws Discussion exceptions , typed-throws	143	4855	September 25, 2023
Bitwise Rotation of Integers Discussion	1	303	September 24, 2023
Type erasure of AsyncSequences Discussion concurrency	25	2561	September 24, 2023
Swift for ios? Discussion	4	507	December 10, 2015
SE-0409: Access-level modifiers on import declarations Proposal Reviews	41	1585	September 23, 2023
Extensions pollution Discussion	9	467	September 22, 2023
[Pitch] Safely sending non-`Sendable` values across isolation domains Pitches	23	3570	September 21, 2023
Precise error typing in Swift Discussion error-handling	89	9730	September 20, 2023
SE-0404: Allow Protocols to be Nested in Non-Generic Contexts Proposal Reviews generics , protocols	30	3124	September 19, 2023
SE-0407: Member Macro Conformances Proposal Reviews macros	6	1813	September 18, 2023
[Accepted] SE-0407: Member Macro Conformances Announcements macros	0	525	September 18, 2023
[PITCH] Hint to owners of protocol functions Pitches	8	638	September 18, 2023