[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0069: Mutability and Foundation Value Types

[Riley Testut]

100% in favor of this proposal. IMO, Foundation should feel as natural to use as the Swift standard library; providing native Swift value types to represent many Foundation objects certainly brings us much closer to accomplishing that goal. 

My only concern is that the Swift wrappers should always be just as "powerful" as their underlying Foundation type. That is, the only reason to use NSData over Data, for example, is because you want a reference type; you should never have to use the NS types directly for a certain feature. However, based off the proposal this seems like it will be the case.

So yes, a giant +1 to this.

> On Apr 25, 2016, at 10:27 AM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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