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140 proposals in 30 minutes

Jesse Squires
September 23, 2016

140 proposals in 30 minutes

Swift 3.0 was an exciting release that dramatically changed the language. It was the first major release cycle that was started and finished in the open. With tremendous feedback from the open source community, the language was refined through the Swift Evolution process with 140 proposals! It’s easy to get lost in all the changes. This talk presents an analysis of all the proposals — exploring statistics on metadata and more, and examining why and how we arrived where we are today, and whether or not we’re better off.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sYQAtoK3VQ

GitHub project:
https://github.com/jessesquires/swift-proposal-analyzer

Event:
http://frenchkit.fr

Jesse Squires

September 23, 2016
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  1. swift evolution “The Swift evolution process aims to leverage the

    collective ideas, insights, and experience of the Swift community to improve the Swift development experience.” 1.Engage community 2.Maintain vision and conceptual coherence 3.Core team responsible for strategic direction
  2. How did we get here? Swift 3.0 has arrived! !

    But how did that happen? ! Let's analyze swift-evolution proposals! !
  3. // swift-proposal-analyzer.playground final class Proposal { let title: String let

    seNumber: String // SE-0001, SE-0002, etc. let authors: [Author] let status: Status // .inReview, .accepted, etc. let fileName: String let fileContents: String let wordCount: Int }
  4. Word / Topic frequency 873 API 384 objective-c 135 bridging

    6 swifty Searching the entire proposal corpus
  5. 100 one author 30 two authors 9 three authors 1

    nine authors 1.79 avg per proposal
  6. Top Authors / Co-authors 25 Erica Sadun 13 Doug Gregor

    12 Joe Groff 10 Dave Abrahams 10 Chris Lattner
  7. Original Goals » Stable ABI (Application Binary Interface) » Resilience

    (Fragile binary interface problem) » Portability (Linux) » Type system cleanup and docs » Complete generics » Focus and refine language » API design guidelines
  8. 5 Types of proposals » Syntax refinements » API improvements,

    redesigns » Bridging with Objective-C » Features (new or refined) » "Bug fixes"
  9. New Goals » API design guidelines » Automatic application of

    naming guidelines to imported Objective-C APIs » Adoption of naming guidelines in key APIs » "Swiftification" of imported Objective-C APIs » Focus and refine language » Improvements to tooling quality » Source Stability
  10. SE-0005 Better Translation of Objective-C APIs Into Swift Make Cocoa/Objective-C

    APIs Great Again!™ // Example: let text = "Hello, FrenchKit! !" // Before let content = text.stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet( NSCharacterSet.whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet()) // After let content = text.trimming(.whitespaceAndNewlines)
  11. SE-0023 API Design Guidelines ("The Great API transformation") Make Swift

    APIs Great Again!™ // Example: var array = [34, 79, 12, 3, 2, 56] // sort in-place (present tense) array.sort() // return new, sorted array (past tense) let sorted = array.sorted()
  12. SE-0025 Scoped Access Level Make Access Control Specifiers Great Again!™

    // Before public > internal > private // (to file) // After public > internal > fileprivate > private // (to scope)
  13. SE-0117 Allow distinguishing between public access and public overridability Make

    Subclassing Great Again!™ // Before public class ViewController: UIViewController { } // After open class ViewController: UIViewController { }
  14. SE-0069 Mutability and Foundation Value Types Make Foundation Great Again!™

    // Before let myDate = Date() let myLaterDate = myDate.dateByAddingTimeInterval(60) // After var myDate = Date() myDate.addTimeInterval(60) // OK let myOtherDate = Date() myOtherDate.addTimeInterval(60) // Error (let constant)
  15. SE-0065 A New Model for Collections and Indices Make Collections

    and Indices Great Again!™ // Example: let collection = /* some collection */ var index = collection.index(where: { /* condition */ }) // Before index.successor() // After collection.index(after: index)
  16. SE-0116 Import Objective-C id as Swift Any type Make Polymorphic

    Obj-C Interfaces Great Again!™ // Objective-C lol - (BOOL)isEqual:(id)object; // Before func isEqual(_ object: AnyObject?) -> Bool // After func isEqual(_ object: Any?) -> Bool
  17. Yes! Swift 3.0 is much better (but still work to

    do! !) Source-stable (mostly? !) No more expensive, painful migrations (hopefully !) Better APIs, better Objective-C inter-op ! Community learned about Swift-evolution process !