[swift-evolution] Winding down the Swift 3 release

[Chris Lattner]

On May 16, 2016, at 10:38 AM, Goffredo Marocchi <panajev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Quite sad we could not get into ABI stability for Swift 3... but are we talking Swift 3.1 or 4.0?

We’ll start discussing post-3.0 releases in August.  Until Swift 3 is really wound down, it is almost impossible to make forward looking plans.

-Chris

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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On 16 May 2016, at 17:43, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>>> On May 16, 2016, at 9:29 AM, David Sweeris <davesweeris at mac.com> wrote:
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>>>> On May 16, 2016, at 10:18 AM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>>>> That said, it is also clear at this point that some of the loftier goals that we started out with aren’t going to fit into the release - including some of the most important generics features needed in order to lock down the ABI of the standard library. As such, the generics and ABI stability goals will roll into a future release of Swift, where I expect them to be the *highest* priority features to get done.
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>>> Oh, good! I was getting worried about that. Are there any particular topics that we should drop or discuss?
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>> The highest priority to me is to get the “little syntactic stuff” done that we want to nail down because it affects source stability.  A recent thing that came up was @noescape -> @nonescaping and whether to make it the default, for example.
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>> As for dropping, it is pretty clear that we are out of time for large-scope additions.
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>> -Chris
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