Swiftweekly.github.io: [170] Issue #170 - October 8, 2020

[fassko]

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[fassko]

Proposal sanity check: assigning a case statement to a boolean

https://forums.swift.org/t/proposal-sanity-check-assigning-a-case-statement-to-a-boolean/40584

[BasThomas]

https://twitter.com/dgregor79/status/1309213269576437760 289 in review

[fassko]

twitter.com/dgregor79/status/1309213269576437760 289 in review

SE-0289 (review #2): Result Builders
https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0289-review-2-result-builders/40585

[BasThomas]

https://twitter.com/Ilseman/status/1309568843522535424

Swift System, providing idiomatic interfaces to system calls and low-level currency types, is now open source!

https://swift.org/blog/swift-system/

[fassko]

maybe fun one https://twitter.com/jckarter/status/1309626612954968065

[fassko]

https://twitter.com/twostraws/status/1310240629151207426

[BasThomas]

https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/34109

[theblixguy]

https://forums.swift.org/t/unlock-existential-types-for-all-protocols/40665

[fassko]

A Few Take-Aways From the Rust Ecosystem

https://forums.swift.org/t/a-few-take-aways-from-the-rust-ecosystem/40771/2

[fassko]

Sum with Block

https://forums.swift.org/t/sum-with-block/40785

[fassko]

https://forums.swift.org/t/introducing-swift-atomics/40831

https://twitter.com/lorentey/status/1311822762189570048

[BasThomas]

https://twitter.com/ktosopl/status/1311936508287315969

If you want to learn how to use #swift #metrics in server side systems and also extensively integration test such metrics, to ensure they report what you think they report (important!), have a look at:

https://github.com/apple/swift-cluster-membership/pull/70

Introduces metrics to our SWIM implementation today

[fassko]

Soto for AWS

https://forums.swift.org/t/soto-for-aws/40806

[fassko]

Swift on the Server Workgroup Sept 16, 2020 notes

https://forums.swift.org/t/sept-16-2020/40811

[fassko]

https://twitter.com/slava_pestov/status/1313542376544235521

[fassko]

Pitch #2: Extend Property Wrappers to Function and Closure Parameters

https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-2-extend-property-wrappers-to-function-and-closure-parameters/40959

[BasThomas]

https://twitter.com/k_katsumi/status/1313593242533806081

Swift AST Explorer is now running on Swift 5.3 🥳 https://swift-ast-explorer.com/

[fassko]

[Proposal] Opt-in Reflection metadata

https://forums.swift.org/t/proposal-opt-in-reflection-metadata/40981

[irshadpc]

https://twitter.com/tkremenek/status/1313998273305145344

[fassko]

Implement Alvarez & Monteiro’s “typeprivate”, possibly with one or two extra restrictions

https://forums.swift.org/t/implement-alvarez-monteiros-typeprivate-possibly-with-one-or-two-extra-restrictions/40994

[fassko]

https://forums.swift.org/t/introducing-swift-algorithms/40997

https://swift.org/blog/swift-algorithms/