01: Already & Only (Swift Open Source Year in Review)

06 March 2017

In this episode we take a look at the first full year of open source Swift development and the first complete release cycle (for 3.0) that happened completely in the open. We reflect on where we’ve been and how we got here. We discuss the initial launch, Swift evolution, the “Great Swift 3 Migration”, and more!

• Open source announcement
• First Swift.org blog post
• First issue of Swift Weekly Brief
• First commit to Swift
• Core Team
• Swift Evolution proposals
• SE-0081: Move where clause to end of declaration
• SE-0004: Remove the ++ and -- operators
• SE-0007: Remove C-style for-loops with conditions and incrementers
• Email: Winding down the Swift 3 release
• Change to Swift 3 goals
• Email: End of source-breaking changes for Swift 3
• Generics Manifesto
• ABI Stability Manifesto
• Swift 2 to Swift 3 migration guide
• Tooling: SourceKit
• Ryan Olson, Is Apple Using Swift in iOS?, (Hacker News)
• Swift Package Manager
• Swift Playgrounds for iPad