41. Talking Swift-Evolution with Kelvin

• Karlie Kloss
  • Kode with Klossy
• Xcode 9’s new editor is written in Swift (WWDC 2017 Initial Impressions)
• swift-evolution mailing list
• swift-evolution GitHub repository
• Kelvin’s proposal to improve Swift’s pointer types
• Andy Trick on Twitter
• Swift 5: start your engines announced the new evolution process changes
• Soroush’s guard-catch proposal (see also Episode 37: Soroush’s Swift Evolution Proposal)
  • Chris Lattner: “Because proposals must be implemented before review, the core team is pre-reviewing proposals to provide guidance of whether they are conceptually plausible for inclusion in swift. This is to avoid the problem of someone spending a bunch of time implementing something, then the core team saying ‘no, that's a bad idea’”
  • David Hart: “To be clear: proposals need an implementation but its not important who implements it. The core team has also implied that they might help pair proposal authors with implementors, so I wouldn't worry about that part.”
• [swift-evolution] [RFC] Definitive Initialization and Incompatibilities with Fixed-size Arrays
• [swift-evolution] Plan to move swift-evolution and swift-users mailing lists to Discourse
• kelvin13 · GitHub
  • noise: Generate and combine commonly used procedural noises and distributions, in pure Swift
  • maxpng: A pure swift PNG decoder and encoder for accessing the raw pixel data of a PNG file
• Unified libc import
  • March 2016 (Brian Gesiak): [swift-evolution] [Draft] Unify "import Darwin/Glibc" to simply "Libc"
  • August 2017 (Kelvin): [swift-evolution] pitch: Unified libc import (again)
• SwiftGL/Image
• Readings on procedural noise
  • Noise Functions and Map Generation (the end of this post includes a bunch of other interesting links)
  • Textbooks: Texturing and Modeling, A Procedural Approach; GPU Gems
• Atom with Swift: swift-language-89; linter-swiftc