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This maintains proposals for changes and user-visible enhancements to the Swift Programming Language.

154 mentions on Hacker News by 105 people: 41 stories, 113 comments · first 2015-12-03 · latest 2026-07-10

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  1. …for Linux of the removal of "Portability" from the Swift 3 evolution/Readme.md [1] are? [1] https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/commit/06b69a6e51a7...
    comment by _isus · 2016-05-16 · in Winding down the Swift 3 release
  2. From https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution " ... However, C++ itself is a very complex language, and providing good interoperability with C++ is a significant undertaking that is out of scope for Swift 3.0. "
    comment by justsaysmthng · 2016-05-07 · in Implemented proposals for Swift 3
  3. …of any of the other operators. Chris Lattner strongly agrees with you and explains his reasons here https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...
    comment by stevetrewick · 2016-05-07 · in Swift 3.0 Release Process
  4. …first proposal for bringing Foundation APIs to this decade has already been accepted for Swift 3: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...
    comment by stepanhruda · 2016-05-07 · in Swift 3.0 Release Process
  5. …work so well with big GUI frameworks. ABI stability and resilience is on the roadmap for Swift 3.0: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/README....
    comment by ridiculous_fish · 2016-04-08 · in Google may be considering Swift as a ‘first class’ language for Android
  6. …forget the removal of the C-style for loop, along with the increment ++ and decrement -- operators. https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa... https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...
    comment by alblue · 2016-03-21 · in Swift 2.2 Released
  7. Looks like two potentially breaking changes at source level: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa... https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...
    comment by brudgers · 2016-03-21 · in Swift 2.2 Released
  8. This will improve in Swift 3.0, via an improved mapping of Cocoa APIs into Swift (naming wise): https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa... At some point in the future I imagine we would also see native Swift APIs.
    comment by bitserf · 2016-01-18 · in Is Apple Using Swift?
  9. …anytime soon Swift is great and all but it will probably not reach critical mass until 2018. [1] https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution#development-major-v... [2] https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/commonl...
    comment by ihsw · 2016-01-18 · in Is Apple Using Swift?
  10. …-- among the first things you learn. Aren't they [slated](1) to be taken out of the language? 1: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...
    comment by avyfain · 2015-12-11 · in Show HN: Swifty – Learn to code in Swift
  11. …plans[1], but it sure looks like they want to have a native concurrency model at some point. 1. https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution#out-of-scope
    comment by oflannabhra · 2015-12-03 · in Swift is Open Source
  12. Yes, it is currently out of scope for Swift 3.0[1] 1. https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution#out-of-scope
    comment by oflannabhra · 2015-12-03 · in Swift is Open Source
  13. They just made public the repo with the guidelines for Swift's evolution process: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/process...
    comment by prateekbhatt · 2015-12-03 · in Swift is Open Source