Evolution

Pitches The Pitches category is an area for pitching ideas for evolution of the Swift language prior to a formal review. 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. 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	16416	January 18, 2018
[Pitch] Test Issue Warnings Pitches api , swift-testing	11	648	July 4, 2025
Pitch: Disable checks for unsafe flags in SwiftPM Pitches packagemanager	17	487	July 4, 2025
[Pitch 3] Custom Main and Global Executors Pitches	10	563	July 4, 2025
[Pitch] Image attachments in Swift Testing Pitches api , swift-testing	11	354	July 4, 2025
Are there any plans we get Swift-dotnet anytime soon? Discussion interoperability	5	393	July 4, 2025
[Pitch] Module selectors Pitches module , swiftinterface	72	1566	July 3, 2025
[Pitch] Add `unprefixed` and `unsuffixed` Naming Options to Attached Macros Pitches macros , attached-macros	2	218	July 3, 2025
SE-0486: Migration tooling for Swift features Proposal Reviews	11	1123	July 3, 2025
[Pitch] Amend SE-0466 & SE-0470 to improve isolation inference Pitches	12	1060	July 3, 2025
ST-0011: Issue Handling Traits Proposal Reviews swift-testing	12	496	July 3, 2025
A minor suggestion to simplify non-isolated related rules Discussion concurrency	22	680	July 3, 2025
SE-0488: Apply the `extracting()` slicing pattern more widely Proposal Reviews	2	242	July 2, 2025
[Second Review] SE-0487: Extensible Enums Proposal Reviews	5	384	July 2, 2025
[Pitch 2] Custom Main and Global Executors Pitches	53	1874	July 2, 2025
[Accepted] SE-0474: Yielding Accessors Announcements	8	1075	July 2, 2025
[Pitch #2] Lifetime dependencies for non-`Escapable` values Pitches	40	1991	July 1, 2025
SE-0487: Extensible Enums Proposal Reviews	19	1478	July 1, 2025
[Pitch] Replaceable Library Plugins Pitches	25	1963	June 30, 2025
Swift mentioned latest NSA/CISA publication on memory-safe languages Discussion memory-safety	3	507	June 30, 2025
Why can't Swift protocols have private properties, and could Swift support access control within protocols? (protocols different roles) Pitches	31	941	June 30, 2025
[Second review] SE-0483: `InlineArray` Type Sugar Proposal Reviews	78	3996	June 28, 2025
[Accepted] SE-0470: Global actor-isolated conformances Announcements	1	422	June 26, 2025
Proposal: Add Secure Memory Management API for Sensitive Data in Swift Pitches security	2	654	June 23, 2025
Swift Package Registry Service Pitches packagemanager	97	29554	June 25, 2025
[Pitch] Capturing values in exit tests Pitches api , swift-testing	7	474	June 24, 2025
[Pitch] Issue Handling Traits Pitches api , swift-testing	18	747	June 24, 2025
[SE-0382] Default arguments for macros and macro implementations Pitches	14	2980	June 24, 2025
SE-0264 (review #2) — Standard Library Preview Package Proposal Reviews	25	4114	June 24, 2025
Where do evolution proposals discuss back-deployment strategy? Discussion	1	182	June 24, 2025