[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0088: Modernize libdispatch for Swift 3 naming conventions

[Darren Mo]

Great, this is the libdispatch API that I’ve been dreaming about! I think it meshes well with the rest of Swift.

I am concerned about one thing though: the naming of the DispatchGroup methods synchronously/asynchronously.

They are hard to type correctly and ugly to look at.
sync/async are already well-established abbreviations in the tech industry.
They are adjectives without verbs, which goes against the API Design Guidelines.

I suggest sticking with the naming from the C API. For example:

let queue = …
queue.dispatchAsync {
  …
}

Cheers,
Darren

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