Swiftweekly.github.io: [114] Issue #114 - July 26, 2018

[BasThomas]

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[BasThomas]

Finally https://twitter.com/jckarter/status/1018224486477279233

[BasThomas]

https://twitter.com/Lukasaoz/status/1019628292104744960

The SwiftNIO team is really pleased to announce NIOTransportServices, our solution for using Network.framework to provide first-class event driven networking on Apple platforms. https://forums.swift.org/t/niotransportservices-swiftnio-and-network-framework/14567

[BasThomas]

https://twitter.com/slava_pestov/status/1020031420360638464

Work continues on implementing SE-0002... with “uncurry levels” gone from SIL, time to remove multiple parameter lists from the AST: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/18082

[BasThomas]

https://forums.swift.org/t/package-manifest-caching-landed/14624

[BasThomas]

https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/18098

I found a file needing refactoring that wasn’t gybbed, so now I can bask in the full glow of conditional conformance. https://twitter.com/AirspeedSwift/status/1020341020049850368/photo/1

[jessesquires]

18,000 PRs
https://mobile.twitter.com/jckarter/status/1019623101921804288

[BasThomas]

219 accepted https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0219-package-manager-dependency-mirroring/14371/8

[BasThomas]

https://twitter.com/slava_pestov/status/1020531782175764480

ABI stability and resilience is just one part of supporting third party binary modules. The other piece is a stable replacement for swiftmodule files. This forum post outlines the approach: https://forums.swift.org/t/plan-for-module-stability/14551

[BasThomas]

https://forums.swift.org/t/array-initializer-with-access-to-uninitialized-buffer/13689

[BasThomas]

221 in review

[BasThomas]

https://twitter.com/dgregor79/status/1021607984059756544

I've having lots of fun working Swift's protocol metadata. From this, an enterprising developer could reconstruct a protocol's associated types, where clauses, and inherited protocols from metadata: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/18163

As part of the ABI stability work we’ve been filling in the gaps in Swift’s reflection metadata, which is surprisingly complete and general for a statically compiled language https://twitter.com/dgregor79/status/1021607984059756544

This all lays the groundwork for powerful metaprogramming capabilities that go far beyond the standard library’s Mirror type