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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

Mentions per year 154 mentions · busiest year 2016 (24)
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  1. ▲ 1
    Swift: Nonexhaustive Enums
    story by tambourine_man · 2025-12-19 · 0 comments
  2. ▲ 5
    Opt-In Strict Memory Safety Checking in Swift 6.2
    story by todsacerdoti · 2025-09-05 · 0 comments
  3. ▲ 3
    Swift Evolution: Improving the approachability of data-race safety
    story by SoKamil · 2025-02-25 · 0 comments
  4. ▲ 3
    Swift proposal: InlineArray, a fixed-size array
    story by ingve · 2025-02-17 · 0 comments
  5. ▲ 1
    Swift-Evolution: Opt-In Strict Memory Safety Checking
    story by ksec · 2025-01-24 · 0 comments
  6. ▲ 2
    A Vision for Embedded Swift
    story by nateb2022 · 2024-12-27 · 0 comments
  7. ▲ 1
    Swift: Precise Control Flags over Compiler Warnings
    story by ingve · 2024-12-06 · 0 comments
  8. ▲ 1
    Integer Generic Parameters
    story by todsacerdoti · 2024-08-28 · 0 comments
  9. ▲ 2
    Objective-C Implementations in Swift
    story by ingve · 2024-05-10 · 0 comments
  10. ▲ 3
    Objective-C Implementations in Swift
    story by todsacerdoti · 2024-05-09 · 0 comments
  11. ▲ 2
    The Swift proposal that removed the ++ and –- operators (2017)
    story by flykespice · 2023-11-07 · 1 comment
  12. ▲ 4
    Statically link Swift runtime libraries by default on supported platforms
    story by dcgudeman · 2023-08-31 · 0 comments
  13. ▲ 1
    Using C++ from Swift: The Vision Document
    story by goranmoomin · 2023-06-10 · 0 comments
  14. ▲ 27
    Function Back Deployment
    story by luu · 2023-06-06 · 8 comments
  15. ▲ 6
    Swift-evolution/0382: Expression Macros
    story by todsacerdoti · 2023-04-09 · 1 comment
  16. ▲ 3
    Swift Evolution-0393: Value and Type Parameter Packs
    story by ingve · 2023-03-24 · 0 comments
  17. ▲ 98
    Swift Proposal: Move Function
    story by todsacerdoti · 2022-07-28 · 99 comments
  18. ▲ 3
    Swift Evolution: Actors proposal is accepted with modification
    story by antfarm · 2021-04-25 · 1 comment
  19. ▲ 264
    Swift Evolution: Actors
    story by mpweiher · 2021-03-16 · 154 comments
  20. ▲ 1
    Swift-evolution SE-0306: Actors
    story by ingve · 2021-03-15 · 0 comments
  21. ▲ 3
    Actors
    story by todsacerdoti · 2021-03-10 · 0 comments
  22. ▲ 6
    Swift: Async/Await
    story by tosh · 2020-12-04 · 0 comments
  23. ▲ 1
    Multiple Trailing Closures in Swift
    story by jshier · 2020-05-04 · 0 comments
  24. ▲ 2
    Swift Proposal: Approximate Equality for Floating Point
    story by lelf · 2019-05-17 · 0 comments
  25. ▲ 3
    Adding IsMultiple to BinaryInteger
    story by luu · 2019-04-24 · 0 comments
  26. ▲ 1
    Swift: Removing currying func declaration syntax
    story by tosh · 2017-09-19 · 0 comments
  27. ▲ 2
    Swift 5 evolution process
    story by geodel · 2017-08-09 · 0 comments
  28. ▲ 2
    Swift 5 plans published
    story by rudedogg · 2017-08-08 · 0 comments
  29. ▲ 4
    Swift 5 – Swift Programming Language Evolution
    story by andrewbarba · 2017-08-08 · 1 comment
  30. ▲ 2
    Smart KeyPaths: Better Key-Value Coding for Swift
    story by Udo_Schmitz · 2017-04-18 · 0 comments
  31. ▲ 1
    Modernize libdispatch for Swift 3 naming conventions
    story by okket · 2016-05-11 · 0 comments
  32. ▲ 175
    Swift Programming Language Evolution
    story by rufus42 · 2016-05-09 · 173 comments
  33. ▲ 81
    Implemented proposals for Swift 3
    story by okket · 2016-05-07 · 37 comments
  34. ▲ 1
    Better Translation of Objective-C APIs into Swift
    story by ingve · 2016-01-13 · 0 comments
  35. ▲ 221
    Swift: Commonly Rejected Changes
    story by ingve · 2015-12-31 · 87 comments
  36. ▲ 5
    First independent Swift language evolution proposition accepted
    story by tambourine_man · 2015-12-15 · 0 comments
  37. ▲ 1
    Swift proposal: Remove C-style for loops
    story by jarcane · 2015-12-10 · 0 comments
  38. ▲ 1
    Remove C-style for-loops with conditions and incrementers
    story by DaNmarner · 2015-12-07 · 0 comments
  39. ▲ 3
    Proposal to Remove C-Style For-Loops from Swift 3.0
    story by tdurden · 2015-12-04 · 0 comments
  40. ▲ 171
    Remove the ++ and –- operators
    story by Someone · 2015-12-03 · 240 comments
  41. ▲ 1
    Swift Programming Language Evolution
    story by tambourine_man · 2015-12-03 · 0 comments