Apple will release Swift 3.0 and announce the development content of the fourth version

Although the official version of Swift 3.0 will be released with iOS 10 and macOS Sierra this fall, due to the open source nature of Swift, we can see the development progress of Swift. The Swift project is led and architected by the famous programmer Chris Lattner. Today he published an article in the Swift development log, reviewing the development process of Swift 3.0 and the outlook for Swift 4.0 next year.

The whole article is meaningful and worth reading for Swift developers and programmers who are interested in it. The article focuses on analyzing the positive and negative impacts on the development of Swift since it was open sourced. Lattner used words such as "fantisy" to describe the active Swift community, although he believes that compared with the products of commercial companies, the open source community often progresses slowly. Latter is quite satisfied with the current results. He said: "At present, it seems that open sourcing Swift is of great significance. After weighing the pros and cons, Swift still benefits more after being open sourced." For those who have worked in the open source community, Latter's emotions should be empathetic.

Apple plans to release two major versions of Swift between now and the fall of 2017, 3.1 to be released next spring, and 4.0 to be released in the fall, with necessary minor updates to fix bugs. For Swift 4.0, Apple intends to focus on improving the stability of the application interface. After that, Latter also listed features including reflection, generics, high concurrency, etc., which will be gradually implemented in the future Swift.