Although the official version of Swift 3.0 will be released this fall with the official release of iOS 10 and macOS Sierra, due to the open source nature of Swift, we are able to see the development of Swift. The Swift project was led by a well-known programmer Chris Lattner as an executive and architect. Today he published an article in Swift's development log, reviewing the development process of Swift 3.0 and the outlook for next year's 4.0.
The entire article has something to say and is worth reading for Swift developers and programmers interested in it. The article focuses on the positive and negative aspects of Swift's development since its inception. Lattner described the active Swift community in words such as "fantasy" (fantisy), although he believes that the open source community tends to be slow compared to commercial companies' products. Latter is very satisfied with the current results, he said: "At present, it seems that open source Swift is of great significance and weighs the pros and cons. After Swift is open source, it still benefits more." For people who have worked in the open source community, Latter's emotions should be able to empathize.
Apple plans to launch two Swift versions from now until fall of 2017, 3.1 will be launched in the spring of tomorrow, and 4.0 will be launched in the fall. Of course, there will be necessary minor updates to fix the bug. For Swift version 4.0, Apple intends to focus on improving the stability of the application interface. After that, Latter also listed functional points including reflection, generics, and high concurrency, which will be gradually implemented in future Swift.
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