Swiftweekly.github.io: [120] Issue #120 - October 18, 2018

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https://twitter.com/FoundationDB/status/1047964152466038784

Announcing official @SwiftLang bindings for #FoundationDB https://www.foundationdb.org/blog/official-swift-bindings-for-foundationdb/

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231 in review

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https://blog.jetbrains.com/objc/2018/10/spm-support-clion/

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https://forums.swift.org/t/abi-stability-checker-is-now-online-for-the-swift-standard-library

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https://swift.org/blog/swiftpm-repl-support/

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https://forums.swift.org/t/comparable-and-floatingpoint-types/16886

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https://twitter.com/slava_pestov/status/1050571783026266118 + thread +https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/19844

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https://twitter.com/tkremenek/status/1050639569303920642

RFC for the new Swift Server work group incubation process that would lead to a recommended set of projects for Swift on server development: https://forums.swift.org/t/rfc-swift-server-work-group-incubation-process/16816

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https://twitter.com/slava_pestov/status/1050645276342419456 + thread

This is cool - @dgregor79’s changes replacing associated type metadata accessors with mangled strings are now both a code size and runtime performance win: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/19828

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https://twitter.com/swift_unwrapped/status/1051836149323452416
https://spec.fm/podcasts/swift-unwrapped/212093

Episode 67: Raw Strings https://spec.fm/podcasts/swift-unwrapped/212093

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Finally

https://twitter.com/AirspeedSwift/status/1051860332740661248

[jpsim]

New LSP language service supporting Swift and C-family languages for any editor and platform

https://forums.swift.org/t/new-lsp-language-service-supporting-swift-and-c-family-languages-for-any-editor-and-platform/17024

and

https://twitter.com/SwiftLang/status/1051950031081631744

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^ + https://forums.swift.org/t/new-lsp-language-service-supporting-swift-and-c-family-languages-for-any-editor-and-platform/17024/8

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https://gist.github.com/rxwei/30ba75ce092ab3b0dce4bde1fc2c9f1d

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https://twitter.com/ericasadun/status/1052674493091442688

SE-0229 — SIMD Vectors will be accepted upon further refinement and a new prototype: https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0229-simd-vectors/16518/97