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Re:Swift Ownership Manifesto by conradev on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @06:06PM (#36219709)
Swift 5.9 dropped at WWDC, and with it came with noncopyable value types:

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...

as well as a way to explicitly move types:

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...

I haven’t read either in-depth, though!

Re:Swift Ownership Manifesto by adamwk on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @06:25PM (#36219919)
Just last week owning and borrowing parameters got accepted as well. https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...

It’s been the focus for a while especially after the concurrency work. It’s probably the final major feature before Swift 6