Interoperability: Swift’s Super Power

Re:Interoperability: Swift’s Super Power by mplewis9z on Friday September 22, 2023 @09:14AM (#37611610)

Eh, I wouldn’t call Foundation its standard library - it sits somewhere in between your traditional stdlib (including things like Date/Time models) and third-party dependencies (things like networking requests). There’s no functionality in Foundation that is absolutely core to the language and that you can’t avoid.

I agree with you the various forks are confusing, but disagree that Apple isn’t putting effort towards the new one - it was only announced earlier this year, and is looking like it will be ready for WWDC is 2024. Which, given the sheer scope of the project (completely rewriting everything from the ground up in Swift), would be quite a fast turnaround time.

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Re:Interoperability: Swift’s Super Power by jamil7 on Friday September 22, 2023 @09:42AM (#37611966)

> There’s no functionality in Foundation that is absolutely core to the language and that you can’t avoid.

Is that why they're splitting the newer one into further SPM modules? There seems to be "FoundationEssentials" listed in that package.

> but disagree that Apple isn’t putting effort towards the new one - it was only announced earlier this year, and is looking like it will be ready for WWDC is 2024

Oh, interesting, where did you find this information? I follow the project on Github and got the impression it had slowed down since its announcement.

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Re:Interoperability: Swift’s Super Power by fauigerzigerk on Friday September 22, 2023 @10:00AM (#37612174)

>Eh, I wouldn’t call Foundation its standard library...

You're absolutely right, because the Swift Standard Library is a separate thing. It contains only the absolute essentials such as Int, String or Array:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/swift-standa...

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