Welcome to issue #24! As noted last week, the first Swift 3 preview branch was cut and now there’s a Swift 3.0 Preview 1 milestone on GitHub tracking pull requests to be included. Currently there are 60 closed and 4 open.
Swift is about to hit another important milestone — 100 proposals. As of this writing there have been 99 Swift evolution proposals merged into the repository, many of them from the community. Swift has only been open source for about 6 months, so that’s over 16 proposals per month — nearly one proposal every other day! I’m pretty sure coordinating, reviewing, and writing swift-evolution announcement emails is Chris Lattner’s new “nights and weekends” passion. 😉
Thus, last week’s announcement about the goals of Swift 3 really should not have been a surprise. I think Dave Verwer said it best, “It’s likely that this volume of high quality community input came as a surprise to the Swift team. Certainly, if it was still closed source, the scope and features of Swift 3 would have been different.”
In other news, Apple released new betas for iOS, tvOS, and OS X.