-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. > Hello Swift community, > > > The review of SE-0166 "Swift Archival&Serialization" begins now and runs > through April 12, 2017. The proposal is available here: > > > https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0166-swift-archival-serialization.md > Reviews are an important part of the Swift evolution process. All reviews > should be sent to the swift-evolution mailing list at > > > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > or, if you would like to keep your feedback private, directly to the review > manager. When replying, please try to keep the proposal link at the top of > the message: > > > > > Proposal link: > > > > > https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0166-swift-archival-serialization.md > > > > Reply text > > > Other replies > > > What goes into a review? > > The goal of the review process is to improve the proposal under review > through constructive criticism and, eventually, determine the direction of > Swift. When writing your review, here are some questions you might want to > answer in your review: > > What is your evaluation of the proposal? > Is the problem being addressed significant enough to warrant a change to > Swift? > Does this proposal fit well with the feel and direction of Swift? > If you have used other languages or libraries with a similar feature, how do > you feel that this proposal compares to those? > How much effort did you put into your review? A glance, a quick reading, or > an in-depth study? > > > More information about the Swift evolution process is available at > > > https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/process.md > Thank you, > > > -Doug > > > Review Manager > > > > _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
