Topics tagged metatype

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
Improving Type Name Computation Performance Standard Library performance , type-casting , metatype	9	550	March 3, 2026
How do you convert a metatype to an existential which references it through a generic type which references it? Using Swift metatype	3	253	September 1, 2025
Is there a way to convert between an existential type and the existential metatype of the same protocol, statically? Using Swift protocols , metatype , existential	3	296	September 1, 2025
Why can you access an associated type but not a generic placeholder from a metatype instance? Using Swift generics , metatype	5	215	February 3, 2025
Swift 6 failing to implicitly open existentials? Using Swift metatype , existential	2	300	July 16, 2024
Is `_openExistential` still a legit strategy for opening `Any.Type` for Swift 5.X? Using Swift metatype , existential	2	2603	June 25, 2024
Is \MyType syntax taken, would it be a good synonym for… Using Swift keypaths , metatype	7	397	June 16, 2024
Strange behaviour of type(of:) on metatypes in generic context with optimized build Compiler generics , compiler , metatype	1	1053	December 28, 2023
Checking protocol conformances with metatypes Using Swift protocols , metatype	2	1069	March 15, 2023
Changing the description of a metatype? Using Swift string , metatype	0	449	December 22, 2022
Making a codable wrapper for metatypes, will I get into trouble by doing this? Using Swift codable , metatype	8	1900	November 17, 2022
Transform nested array metatype, where nested array has arbitrary depth Using Swift array , metatype	5	996	November 14, 2022
Inspecting a Metatype Using Swift reflection , metatype	5	1799	November 2, 2022
Can I express this abstraction (XPC rendezvous) with Swift's generics? Using Swift generics , metatype	0	795	May 26, 2022
What is `Metatype` that `type(of:)` returns? Using Swift generics , metatype	4	3517	May 10, 2022
How to type-erase a Swift PAT that exposes an `init`? Using Swift associatedtype , metatype , type-erasure	3	844	March 25, 2022
Can I write this function without having to pass an instance? Using Swift generics , metatype	3	776	December 20, 2021
Checking type equivalence properly Using Swift swift , metatype	2	684	November 9, 2021
Dynamic casting Any to a runtime optional type Using Swift type-casting , metatype , metadata , any	12	1752	September 16, 2021
What’s so special about UIView.init()? Using Swift inheritance , metatype	5	4120	May 13, 2021
Why there is no subtyping relation between existential meta types? Discussion metatype , subtyping , existential	11	1745	October 14, 2020
RFC: Dynamic Casting Specification Compiler cast , type-casting , metatype	3	2247	August 27, 2020
Type information loss when comparing generic variables with an array of metatypes Using Swift generics , metatype	2	811	November 10, 2019
Optionally optional metatypes Using Swift generics , metatype	6	1116	August 22, 2019