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Though it is underplayed in the release notes, the biggest initiative with Swift 5 is the stable ABI. Now that the binary interface is locked down, the Swift r
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Though it is underplayed in the release notes, the biggest initiative with Swift 5 is the stable ABI.
Now that the binary interface is locked down, the Swift runtime and standard library can ship as part of an OS. That means that Swift can be used in system frameworks, the runtime support libraries won't need to be vendored in each app, and it opens the door to shipping (non-OS) binary frameworks.
- ksec 8y agoHow many MBs are the Standard Library for Swift? If it is 10MB then many user could expect anywhere form 100MB+ savings on their iPhone. I think I will just wait for 5.1 before taking another look. Not really trusting Apple on how they describe Stable in their recent release.
- favorited 8y agoSomeone had an app go from 2.4 MB (compressed) all the way down to 24 KB. https://twitter.com/BalestraPatrick/status/1088565310691647489 https://twitter.com/BalestraPatrick/status/10885653106916474...