> On May 17, 2016, at 5:35 AM, Jeremy Pereira via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 16 May 2016, at 18:38, Goffredo Marocchi via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Quite sad we could not get into ABI stability for Swift 3... but are we 
>> talking Swift 3.1 or 4.0?
> 
> 
> Disappointing is my first thought, in fact worrying. Two years after the 
> language was announced, the ABI is still not stable.
> 
> Of the original Swift 3 goals, it looks like many will not be met. There were 
> seven goals and only two are still in the Readme file[1]. On the assumption 
> that the other five were all dropped because they will not be achieved in 
> Swift 3, this looks like failure.
> 
> I’ve been following the evolution list on and off since it started and it 
> hasn’t felt like failure. In fact, it felt like important progress has been 
> made and the language will be hugely better for it, but I do hope that the 
> development team does take the opportunity to review the release in light of 
> the original goals to see if there are any opportunities to improve the 
> development process for the next release.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law

> [1] 
> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/d6e62467b03435bdc4b3bd473c3dcffb9fdd6a71/README.md
>  compared to 
> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/f11d2e970521f5df0f7510f89ee9c7decb3fa394/README.md


-Pierre

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