<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">A Swift developer has actually started a blog series about the swift compiler. The links to his post were posted in one of the evolution topics a little while ago. The series is incomplete, but it gives a lot of explanations about the various parts of the swift compiler.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://medium.com/@slavapestov/the-secret-life-of-types-in-swift-ff83c3c000a5" class="">https://medium.com/@slavapestov/the-secret-life-of-types-in-swift-ff83c3c000a5</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://medium.com/@slavapestov/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-sil-type-use-6b45f7595f43" class="">https://medium.com/@slavapestov/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-sil-type-use-6b45f7595f43</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I wholeheartedly agree that a mentorship program would be extremely useful for helping others get up-to-speed with the swift compiler. I myself wished I understood it better. The only problem is that with something so large and complex, it would take a lot of time and effort to document and create a tutorial for it. I wish that this would happen, but I don’t know that anyone at Apple has the time and there probably aren’t very many people outside of apple with the know-how and time to write a tutorial as a hobby. I hope that I’m wrong though.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 14, 2017, at 2:35 PM, Jay Abbott via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">I think we should have some kind of mentorship program for the swift source. I'm confident that my following statement doesn't apply to just me:<br class=""><br class="">"I'd
love to get involved in the source a lot more, and my previous efforts
to browse around and understand it a bit better have been thwarted by
lack of time, a specific goal/direction, and no proper commitment (all
my own failings of course). I'd be happy to learn the code and
implement proposals, but I really want someone to turn to when I need
some help and guidance."<br class=""><br class="">In addition to the core team, I think there are a few others who know the code well enough, and who may be willing to mentor and
share that knowledge further. Having a specific mentor makes it much easier to get to a level where you feel comfortable talking to the wider development community on swift-dev for example.<br class=""><br class="">There would need to be some level of self-starting bar, which would need to be supported by some documentation to read, and some simple tasks/tutorials to complete (For example create a branch which removes an existing feature and a tutorial to re-implement it, that touches a few key areas of the code-base). The swift project and the evolution process would benefit by having more potential implementors, so writing such documentation and getting-started guides should be a high priority in order to help people get more involved. Once complete, it would be great to choose a proposal, find a mentor, and start work on it under their guidance.<br class=""><br class="">I believe effort focused in this area will have a high return, given the high quality and quantity of passion and talent I see in this list.<br class=""></div></div>
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