Archive - Swift Evolution Monthly

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 more. Summarizing the…

May 4 •

February 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!

Feb 9 •

December 2023

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!

Dec 25, 2023 •

July 2023

Swift Evolution Monthly: June '23

WWDC 23 Aftermath, 0 Proposals Accepted in June, Milestone: #400, 2 new Proposals & 10 Pitches linked, OpenAPI Generator.

Jul 3, 2023 •

June 2023

Swift Evolution Monthly: May '23

"package" Modifier, Noncopyable structs/enums, Custom Actor Executors, Freestanding Declaration Macros, more Packs.

Jun 4, 2023 •

May 2023

Swift Evolution Monthly: March + April '23

1-Year Anniversary: Summaries on GitHub! AsyncStream, Attached Macros (in SwiftPM), Package Publish, Parameter Packs, Feature Flags & Foundation…

May 2, 2023 •

March 2023

Swift Evolution Monthly Jan + Feb '23

Expression Macros, Deprecate @UIApplicationMain, Forward Declared ObjC Interfaces, Swift 5.8 & 6 schedule

Mar 20, 2023 •

January 2023

Swift Evolution Monthly: December '22

Registry auth, Opt-In Reflection, if-switch Expressions, Vision documents, DiscardingTaskGroups, and Foundation rewrite.

Jan 13, 2023 •

December 2022

The Swift Evolution Monthly newsletter was successfully migrated over from Revue.

Dec 22, 2022 •

October 2022

Swift Evolution Monthly: October '22

Lifting limitations on Xcode, Result Builder variables, Existential arguments, testable Clocks, and Back-Deploying Functions

Oct 30, 2022 •

September 2022

Swift Evolution Monthly: September '22

Conditional Attributes, StaticBigInt, Stable Sorting, Isolated deinit, Work Groups

Sep 29, 2022 •

August 2022

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…

Aug 3, 2022 •

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