Swift Evolution Monthly: May-November 2024
Discover the latest Swift updates, from Objective-C compatibility improvements to metatype keypaths, trailing commas, and new compiler controls—plus a must-have app for tracking proposals!
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Swift Evolution Monthly: February-April 2024
Swift 6 around the corner, Swift Backtrace APIs for improved Debugging, Improving Concurrency, a new Swift Steering Workgroup, and much more. Summarizing the best of Swift Evolution from February to April 2024.
Swift Evolution Monthly: January '24
Smoothing out some rough edges in Swift concurrency. System-level programming with low-level atomics. And many interesting new proposals linked!
Swift Evolution Monthly: December '23
Our biggest wish came true: Explaining Typed Throws in Swift. Also: Improved namespacing and reduced dependency creep. And 14 more proposals linked!
Swift Evolution Monthly: June '23
WWDC 23 Aftermath, 0 Proposals Accepted in June, Milestone: #400, 2 new Proposals & 10 Pitches linked, OpenAPI Generator.
Swift Evolution Monthly: May '23
"package" Modifier, Noncopyable structs/enums, Custom Actor Executors, Freestanding Declaration Macros, more Packs.
Swift Evolution Monthly: March + April '23
1-Year Anniversary: Summaries on GitHub! AsyncStream, Attached Macros (in SwiftPM), Package Publish, Parameter Packs, Feature Flags & Foundation Preview.
Swift Evolution Monthly Jan + Feb '23
Expression Macros, Deprecate @UIApplicationMain, Forward Declared ObjC Interfaces, Swift 5.8 & 6 schedule
Swift Evolution Monthly: December '22
Registry auth, Opt-In Reflection, if-switch Expressions, Vision documents, DiscardingTaskGroups, and Foundation rewrite.
Swift Evolution Monthly: October '22
Lifting limitations on Xcode, Result Builder variables, Existential arguments, testable Clocks, and Back-Deploying Functions
Swift Evolution Monthly: September '22
Conditional Attributes, StaticBigInt, Stable Sorting, Isolated deinit, Work Groups
Swift Evolution Monthly: July '22
My first Indie App, my first Evolution pitch experience, the last of 6 Regex proposals, external conformance warning, implicit [weak self] capture & a new 'move' keyword.
Swift Evolution Monthly: June ’22
WWDC22, new `@const` attribute, improved `some`, convenient Generic extensions, and Swift 6 feature flags for early adopters.
Swift Evolution Monthly: May ’22
Regex overhaul (pt. II), Swift Snippets, new Workgroups
Swift Evolution Monthly: April ‘22
Regex overhaul, improved Existentials, Swift 5.7 timeline
Swift Evolution Monthly: First Issue
Summary of interesting developments on Swift Evolution - Update from 03/2022 + some background history (1st issue!)