Evolution

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. 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.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Evolution category Evolution	0	2506	January 18, 2018
`borrow` and `take` parameter ownership modifiers Pitches	8	611	August 11, 2022
Isolated synchronous deinit Pitches	19	1362	August 11, 2022
[Pitch] Pointer bit width compile time conditional Pitches	6	211	August 11, 2022
Optional explicit `self` parameter declaration in methods Pitches	39	706	August 11, 2022
Pitch - Swift Tooling Workgroup Pitches	35	1227	August 11, 2022
Dropping the "await" keyword (in some cases?)? Discussion asyncawait	21	443	August 11, 2022
SE-0366: Move Function + "Use After Move" Diagnostic Proposal Reviews ownership , performance , arc	174	5927	August 10, 2022
SE-0368: StaticBigInt Proposal Reviews	26	1148	August 10, 2022
Existential associated types Pitches generics , protocols , associatedtype	16	626	August 10, 2022
Which (breaking) changes would you be willing to accept in a major language release? Discussion	41	1744	August 10, 2022
Swift Package Registry Service Pitches packagemanager	87	17256	August 9, 2022
[Discussion] Default Generic Arguments Discussion	1	378	August 9, 2022
SE-0364: Warning for Retroactive Conformances of External Types Proposal Reviews	66	2236	August 9, 2022
SE-0367: Conditional compilation for attributes Proposal Reviews	4	559	August 8, 2022
Cross Platform Discussion windows , linux	14	922	August 8, 2022
[Accepted] SE-0365: Allow implicit self for weak self captures, after self is unwrapped Announcements	0	1883	August 8, 2022
Why stackless (async/await) for Swift? Discussion	43	7567	August 8, 2022
[Proposal] 'selfprivate' Access Control - allowing access in extension within '`self`' Pitches access-control	18	717	August 8, 2022
Quiz: Global-actor function types Discussion concurrency	17	969	August 7, 2022
Properties with default values are always initialized before the body of any init(), even for Decodable.init — why is this? Discussion codable , swift	1	209	August 7, 2022
[Pitch] Add CustomDebugDescription conformance to AnyKeyPath Pitches	15	1176	August 7, 2022
Pitch: Limit typealias extensions to the typealias Pitches	25	1971	August 6, 2022
Swift as a cross-platform language and Windows support Discussion windows , swift-evolution	85	29682	August 5, 2022
Roundtripping key coding strategies Discussion codable	6	514	August 4, 2022
[Pitch] Use “some” to express “some specialization of a generic type” Pitches	10	868	August 4, 2022
Proposal draft for `is case` (pattern-match boolean expressions) Pitches	54	2984	August 2, 2022
SE-0365: Allow implicit self for weak self captures, after self is unwrapped Proposal Reviews	44	2396	August 2, 2022
Papercut: The Swift Postmortem (2022) Discussion	7	628	August 2, 2022
Pitch: Pass-through initializers for enum associated values Pitches init , enums	10	747	August 2, 2022