Swiftweekly.github.io: [157] Issue #157 - April 9, 2020

[BasThomas]

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[fassko]

https://twitter.com/tkremenek/status/1243235856791429122

[fassko]

[Accepted] SE-0280: Enum Cases as Protocol Witnesses

The review of SE-0280: Enum Cases as Protocol Witnesses has concluded. Almost all of the feedback we received was in favor of making this change, and the Core Team is convinced that this closes an unnecessary semantic gap between enums and other types.

https://forums.swift.org/t/accepted-se-0280-enum-cases-as-protocol-witnesses/34850

[fassko]

https://nshipster.com/swift-log/

https://twitter.com/mattt/status/1243586226231238657

[fassko]

https://atp.fm/episodes/371

[BasThomas]

https://twitter.com/DaveAbrahams/status/1244392361985060864

A seemingly-trivial thing, but we need better data printing for Swift.

https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-a-better-data-pretty-printer/34914

[fassko]

SE-0281: @main: Type-Based Program Entry Points

https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0281-main-type-based-program-entry-points/34948

[fassko]

Platforms Stanza for Linux

https://forums.swift.org/t/platforms-stanza-for-linux/34955

[fassko]

https://twitter.com/slava_pestov/status/1244860246755102720

New approach for recording incremental build dependencies using the request evaluator, by @CodaFi_ - this paves the way for faster builds in the future: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/30723

[fassko]

Announcing Swift 5.2.1 for Linux

https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-5-2-1-for-linux/34950

[BasThomas]

https://twitter.com/johannesweiss/status/1245368729988407298

Wow, thanks to @compnerd , SwiftNIO is running on Windows! 🎉🚀

That's a massive achievement, thank you so much Saleem!

NOTAnAprilFool #SwiftNIO #Windows

https://forums.swift.org/t/windows-nio/35003

[jpsim]

https://twitter.com/mattt/status/1245395022368759808

I’m thrilled to announce the first public beta of swift-doc!

Though we still have a lot of work before version 1.0.0, today’s release is a huge step forward in realizing our vision for beautiful, information-dense documentation for the Swift community.

https://github.com/SwiftDocOrg/swift-doc

[fassko]

https://www.fivestars.blog/code/swift-subcommands-galore.html

[jasdev]

A primer on operator fusion in Combine, https://twitter.com/jasdev/status/1245420783536672771

[fassko]

Development open for Swift 5.2.2 for Linux

https://forums.swift.org/t/development-open-for-swift-5-2-2-for-linux/35012

[fassko]

Fun one https://twitter.com/jckarter/status/1245483349147172864

[fassko]

Swift on Mac OS 9 😁

https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-on-mac-os-9/35019/2

[fassko]

Property initialization using a KeyPath within an init method

https://forums.swift.org/t/property-initialization-using-a-keypath-within-an-init-method/35034

[BasThomas]

Finally

https://twitter.com/dgregor79/status/1245935942973583366
https://twitter.com/dgregor79/status/1245936440371867648

It’s almost 10pm. Why oh why am I doing CMake and bash?

Instead, now I’m cleaning the cat’s litter box. Surprisingly similar, and I think I like this task better

[fassko]

Landing SE-0276 implementation

https://forums.swift.org/t/landing-se-0276-implementation/35093

[fassko]

New project: SwiftJS

https://forums.swift.org/t/new-project-swiftjs/35062

This is interesting project.

[fassko]

Table style print for 2D Array, Dictionary and Tuples

https://forums.swift.org/t/table-style-print-for-2d-array-dictionary-and-tuples/35121

[BasThomas]

https://www.swiftcommunitypodcast.org/episodes/8

[owenv]

A few more proposals that have been implemented in the past couple weeks:

https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/26632 (SE-0268, refining didSet semantics)
https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/30130 (SE-0277, adding Float16 to stdlib)
https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/28916 (SE-0280, enum cases as protocol witnesses)