Swiftweekly.github.io: [111] Issue #111 - June 14, 2018

[BasThomas]

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[RomanVolkov]

I will take it:)

[BasThomas]

Thank you so much @RomanVolkov! :)

[jessesquires]

@BasThomas "Thursday" ? 🤔 was this created with your script? 😄

[BasThomas]

🤦‍♂️

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[BasThomas]

https://twitter.com/slava_pestov/status/1002381541106782208

Debug info support for generics is about to get a whole lot better: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/16937

[BasThomas]

https://twitter.com/jckarter/status/1002575700220469253

For me, more exciting than any new feature in Swift 4.2 is the huge amount of work that’s gone into making tools like lldb work better with Swift https://twitter.com/slava_pestov/status/1002381541106782208

[modocache]

Shameless plug, for my tenth article on Swift compiler development: _How the Swift Compiler Emits Diagnostics, Part 2: Swift's Wrappers of LLVM Abstractions_ https://twitter.com/modocache/status/1002595660347072512

[jessesquires]

Optimize string constants:
https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/17014

[BasThomas]

https://twitter.com/slava_pestov/status/1005336942639079424

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[gregheo]

What's New in Swift 4.2:
https://github.com/ole/whats-new-in-swift-4-2 (playground)
https://www.raywenderlich.com/194066/whats-new-in-swift-4-2 (article)

My own shameless plug: an article about #error and #warning in Swift 4.2:
https://swiftunboxed.com/internals/diagnostics-warning-error/

[gregheo]

Xcode 10 Beta now required to build master & swift-4.2-branch
https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/17000
https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/17001

[BasThomas]

We're publishing in two days, just a heads up @RomanVolkov :)

[BasThomas]

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/issues/855

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[RomanVolkov]

@BasThomas don't worry, I'll upload the draft tomorrow:)

[jessesquires]

@RomanVolkov 🎉 Sounds good! Let's try to get an initial draft merged early and we can keep iterating. 😄

[BasThomas]

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/issues/858

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[gregheo]

SE-0216 in review — https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0216-user-defined-dynamically-callable-types/13615

[RomanVolkov]

@SwiftWeekly/writers do you have something for final section?

[RomanVolkov]

https://github.com/SwiftWeekly/swiftweekly.github.io/pull/396
draft is ready. will review tomorrow morning (fyi, my time is about +10-12 from yours)

[RomanVolkov]

Final is missing.

[tapthaker]

Wanted to put in the ** from @gregheo's Alt conf talk on shared mutable state. Couldn't find it anywhere

WRT: https://twitter.com/gregheo/status/1003322252912308226