> On Sep 12, 2016, at 3:03 PM, Shyamal Chandra via swift-users
> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
>
> Instead of moving onto Swift 3, 4, and 5 (with different syntax), why don't
> you standardize the library and language operations and functions for the
> different package and frameworks included with Xcode
That is the goal, and apparently it will happen with Swift 4. It’s a very large
goal, and if you wanted the Swift designers to hold off on releases until it
was complete, there’d be no updates to the language for some time. Moreover,
outside developers would have no input into the changes going on, unlike the
current development process where anyone can suggest and discuss proposals.
Other new languages like Go and Rust have also gone through years of early
evolution where syntax and APIs changed incompatibly. (In the case of Go, it
happened prior to 1.0 when hardly anyone was paying attention to it.)
—Jens
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