Re:Swift 5.0 release process
by bsaul on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @05:28PM
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Except they're announcing a feature freeze for november 2018, so unless something major happens i don't think we'll get any surprise here..
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Well, one "surprise" is that a new thing called "module stability" was invented. The Swift ABI isn't going to be the ABI-thing you are used to from C (or COM) or JVM or, well ABIs ;-)
And sure, they'll give you an ABI. But whether that is going to be a _stable_ ABI is to be seen. I have some doubts given the complexity of the language, but we'll see how it turns out.