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…automated than bindgen's toggles and switches and creating them by hand in with cgo in Golang. [0] https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/CppInteroper... [1] https://github.com/apple/swift/pulls?q=label%3A%22C%2B%2B+In... [2]…

comment by rvz · 2020-09-25 · in Swift System Is Now Open Source

…of automatic memory management with ownership, https://swift.org/blog/swift-5-exclusivity/ https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/OwnershipMan... https://dlang.org/blog/2019/07/15/ownership-and-borrowing-in... "Linear Haskell",…

comment by pjmlp · 2020-09-24 · in Biscuit: A monolithic, POSIX-subset operating system kernel in Go

Sure, several Swift https://swift.org/blog/swift-5-exclusivity/ https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/OwnershipMan... D https://dlang.org/blog/2019/07/15/ownership-and-borrowing-in... Haskell…

comment by pjmlp · 2020-09-24 · in Haskell's Children

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Resource Ownership for Swift

story by fpoling · 2020-09-23 · 0 comments

…document, direct C++ interop will soon be done without the need of extern "C" wrappers. [0] [0] https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/CppInteroper...

comment by rvz · 2020-09-23 · in Swift on Windows

The compiler https://swift.org/swift-compiler/ is open source? https://github.com/apple/swift Or have I misunderstood your comment?

comment by trollied · 2020-09-13 · in How Swift 5.3 enhances SwiftUI’s DSL

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Adding async to the Swift type system

story by samcat116 · 2020-07-28 · 0 comments

…than FOSS (free / open source software) in your critique of FOSS. Reason being, Swift is FOSS ( https://github.com/apple/swift ), both the compiler and the standard library. Likewise, the Microsoft C# compiler is also FOSS (…

comment by balnaphone · 2020-05-11 · in Being Slow to Criticise

…enjoy the productivity of having a GC around, while being able to get hold of these kind of tools. https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/OwnershipMan... https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/linear-types

comment by pjmlp · 2020-05-08 · in Show HN: Micro-mitten – Research language with compile-time memory management

…to put the interface in the language or the library. Didn't TensorFlow fork the Swift compiler? https://github.com/apple/swift/tree/tensorflow Forking the compiler is hardly my idea of getting all programmers on the same page.

comment by ken · 2020-04-09 · in Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming

Well it seems that the same guy has actually also upstreamed it https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/11583

comment by highspeedmobile · 2020-04-02 · in Swift on Mac OS 9

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Swift and C++ Interop Manifesto

story by rvz · 2020-02-19 · 0 comments

…with you on this. I'm still waiting for the rest of the generics manifesto to, you know, manifest: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/GenericsMani... That one and the need for generic associatedTypes trip me up all the time. I…

comment by sixstringtheory · 2020-02-06 · in What’s New in Swift 5.2

…but it is not complete yet. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7gkiie/implementing_s... [1] https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/OwnershipMan...

comment by favorited · 2020-02-04 · in Swift Crypto

…learning an entirely new language. In fact, standard arrays are implemented in Swift code ( https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/cor... ) yet feel closer to say a Python list than a Java ArrayList from the user’s…

comment by neeeeees · 2020-01-21 · in Seq – A Language for Bioinformatics

…community is currently trying to come up with their own differentiable programming initiative [1] https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/Differentiab...

comment by teleforce · 2020-01-16 · in DDSP: Differentiable Digital Signal Processing

…out. While Apple might do that too, at this point they seem to be chasing the opposite approach: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/OwnershipMan... Essentially, nicking the ownership/lifetimes system out of Rust, to avoid…

comment by Tuna-Fish · 2019-12-01 · in Garbage Collection

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Differentiable Programming Manifesto

story by kristianp · 2019-11-13 · 75 comments

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Differentiable Programming Manifesto

story by sciencenut · 2019-11-11 · 0 comments

…> And it perplexes me how over the years there have been no serious attempts to make it happen. https://github.com/apple/swift/search?q=windows&unscoped_q=w...

comment by saagarjha · 2019-11-09 · in How Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't

…requirements" error). [0]: https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/OpaqueTypes.... [1]: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/GenericsMani...

comment by NobodyNada · 2019-11-05 · in Static Types in SwiftUI

…but at least CI is set up and passing on both platforms (which wasn't the case a year ago): https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/README.md

comment by NobodyNada · 2019-10-31 · in Swift Server Work Group Annual Update

…Timsort that "performs straight merges instead of adopting timsort's galloping strategy" [0]. [0] https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/19717

comment by rsfinn · 2019-10-09 · in Timsort, the Python sorting algorithm

…of my head here's two major open source contributions from them: Swift[1] and FoundationDB[2] [1] https://github.com/apple/swift [2] https://github.com/apple/foundationdb

comment by jeffnappi · 2019-09-17 · in MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library

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Name Translation from C to Swift

story by ingve · 2019-09-03 · 0 comments

…become just one of the other things you just have to get used to to learn programming. [0]: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/OwnershipMan...

comment by roblabla · 2019-08-28 · in Rust is the future, C is the new Assembly: Josh Triplett (Intel)

It appears to be https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/25221 , which doesn't yet have a public proposal.

comment by plorkyeran · 2019-06-03 · in SwiftUI

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Enable ExistentialSpecializer by default · Issue #19820 · apple/swift

story by tambourine_man · 2019-05-07 · 0 comments

…(yes, there’s swift_retainCount to read them, but that’s documented as returning a random number ( https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/Runtime.md ) because it should not be used). So, if the compiler emits more reference count…

comment by Someone · 2019-04-23 · in Modern C++ Won't Save Us

…the first two (in fact, this is how Swift implements it by default if you don't override it: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/e08b2194487d883896a377a0... )

comment by saagarjha · 2019-04-15 · in Swift Generics Evolution

…Rust. I guess people are more familiar with Rust.. since Swift hasn't actually implemented it yet? https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/OwnershipMan...

comment by Aardappel · 2019-04-04 · in The Lobster Programming Language

…used to generate several variants of similar code that would be cumbersome to maintain otherwise. https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/utils/gyb.py

comment by fphilipe · 2019-04-03 · in Cog: Use pieces of Python code as generators in your source files

https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/OwnershipMan...

comment by kod · 2019-03-18 · in Diagram and History of Programming Languages (2006)

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Swift Ownership Manifesto

story by kristianp · 2019-03-09 · 0 comments

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Swift to get Rust-like ownership model

story by eindiran · 2019-03-07 · 0 comments

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Swift/OwnershipManifesto.md at master · apple/swift

story by tambourine_man · 2019-03-07 · 0 comments

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Swift Standard Library Programmers Manual

story by ingve · 2019-02-19 · 0 comments

Ubuntu is supported (see https://swift.org/download/ ), but Windows is pretty early I think. See https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/Windows.md and https://forums.swift.org/t/windows-nightlies/19174 for more info.

comment by rudedogg · 2019-02-10 · in Why Swift for TensorFlow?

…changes that would affect the `inout` checking (e.g. one cannot change an argument to be inout): https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/LibraryEvolu... (note the list of non-permitted changes includes changing types).

comment by dbaupp · 2019-02-06 · in Swift 5 Exclusivity Enforcement

…but I think the Apache2 license on Swift would mean that the JS community has access to the patent. https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/LICENSE.txt TC39 (who defines Javascript) is a collaboration of several companies, so I'm not…

comment by evv · 2019-01-27 · in Future JavaScript: what is still missing?

This is not exactly a new thing: https://github.com/apple/swift There's also: https://github.com/apple/foundationdb

comment by lloeki · 2019-01-15 · in Apple Open-Sources FoundationDB Record Layer

…to an unexported function? > > Can I "swizzle"? > There’s an experimental thing for this now: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/20333 This is interesting; I haven't been really been following the lists recently but I took the time to…

comment by saagarjha · 2018-11-13 · in Parsing Excel Spreadsheets with Swift's Codable Protocols

…no exposed API for doing this. > Can I "swizzle"? There’s an experimental thing for this now: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/20333

comment by slavapestov · 2018-11-13 · in Parsing Excel Spreadsheets with Swift's Codable Protocols

…for the next major version as you can see on this dashboard: https://swift.org/abi-stability/ (1) https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/SIL.rst

comment by jchb · 2018-11-07 · in Swift Intermediate Language Ownership Model Proposal

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Swift 4.2

story by okket · 2018-09-13 · 0 comments

There’s plenty of details: https://gist.github.com/lattner/31ed37682ef1576b16bca1432ea9... https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/ErrorHandlin...

comment by zoul · 2018-08-12 · in On Apple's Love Affair with Swift

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Ask HN: Where to start with Swift compiler development?

story by Lausbert · 2018-07-31 · 0 comments

…(single C file, it's only in a C++ file to satisfy a build system quirk in Swift on linux: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/run... , Apache2 + run time exception). Ryu is somewhat faster for doubles, though…

comment by stephencanon · 2018-07-28 · in Ryū: Fast Float-To-String Conversion

…ABI[0], it's use cases are limited except doing anything but iOS development (which is barely ok) https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/ABIStability...

comment by mikkelam · 2018-06-11 · in Why Crystal Is My Next Language

…anyone looking at a practical implementation, Swift recently migrated to a Grisu2-based algorithm: https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/97a934c412a26f0222f57d...

comment by saagarjha · 2018-06-11 · in How to Print Floating-Point Numbers Accurately (1990) [pdf]