[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0166: Swift Archival & Serialization

[Brad Hilton]

-1. I support the motivation, but I think this proposal and SE-0167 are too premature.

Don’t get me wrong, I think that Swift leaves much to be desired as far as serialization/deserialization goes. However I think that these proposals are putting the cart before the horse. I think we first need to add genuine reflection APIs before adding encoding/decoding capabilities to the stdlib. Reflection will substantially simply most serialization/deserialization task. These APIs borrow too much Cocoa’s native archiving capabilities for my taste and I’d rather not introduce something that may be considered legacy in the future.


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