Programming languages

Swift

Fast, safe, and expressive programming language

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9 GSoC years

2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018

2026

3 projects

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Task and TaskGroup Tracking for Swift Concurrency

Swift's concurrency runtime has no mechanism to enumerate live Tasks and TaskGroups. When a program using async/await stalls, existing tools such as...

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Qualified Name Lookup for swift-syntax

I propose reimplementing the compiler’s qualified name lookup in the Swift-only "swift-syntax" package. I will add a new API to the...

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DocC Language Features in SourceKit-LSP

This project aims to extend SourceKit LSP to add DocC Language features like go-to-definition and diagnostic support for missing or broken symbol...

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2025

4 projects

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Improve the display of documentation during code completion in SourceKit-LSP

Currently, SourceKit-LSP only shows the first line of the documentation for code completion items. Furthermore, it doesn’t support the Language...

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JNI mode for swift-java’s source jextract tool

The swift-java interoperability library provides the jextract-swift tool, which extracts Java sources that are used to call Swift code from Java....

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Swiftly Integration in VS Code

This project aims to integrate Swiftly with the Swift Extension for VSCode. It should allow users to install Swiftly and Swift toolchains in the...

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Improved Console Output for Swift Testing

This project enhances the console output experience for the Swift Testing framework by designing and implementing a new, two-phase console reporter....

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2024

4 projects

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Write a Swift code generator to support the creation of SAM deployment descriptor

Deploying AWS Lambda functions using AWS SAM (Serverless Application Model) requires manual creation of a deployment descriptor, posing challenges...

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Expansion of Swift Macros in Visual Studio Code

“Implementing a Code Action in Visual Studio Code to show the expansion of a Swift Macro in a peeked editor”. Swift Macros allow the generation of...

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Lexical scopes for swift-syntax

This proposal describes how we can implement Lexical scopes library for swift-syntax. The library would describe what declarations are available in...

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Swift-etcd: A Native Client for Seamless Integration with etcd Servers

Developing a native Swift-etcd client aims to seamlessly integrate etcd, a distributed Swift key-value store into Swift applications. This project...

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2023

3 projects

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Key Path inference and diagnostic improvements

SE-0249 introduced key path expressions as functions to the Swift language, to allow Swift users to write a more concise \Root.value in place of the...

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Swift native implementation of a Memcached Client using SwiftNIO for the networking stack.

I will be developing a native Swift Memcached client using SwiftNIO to address the need for an efficient and user-friendly caching solution in Swift...

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Implement Incremental Re-Parsing in SwiftParser

Considering the performance, instead of reparsing the entire file every time, we could speed up the parsing procedure with the information provided...

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2022

5 projects

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Improving the Debug Output Of The Type Inference Algorithm

Swift’s type inference algorithm allows us to write source code without explicit type notations. It is implemented using a type checker that breaks...

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Interactive mode for swift CLI tool ArgumentParser

For this project, we would design and implement an interactive mode for command-line tools built using ArgumentParser that prompts for any required...

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Quick navigation in DocC Render

DocC Render is an open-sourced project that let us visualize `.doccarchive` on the web, it renders the compiled Swift codebase documentation in a...

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Bootstrapping SwiftSyntaxBuilder

Providing excellent tooling for Swift often involves operating on Swift syntax trees directly. The swift-syntax library serves this purpose by...

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Kafka Client Package for Swift

Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform that is very widely used to process and store data. This project aims to create a Swift...

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2021

5 projects

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SwiftPM support for Swift scripts

This proposal aims to bring scripting support to SwiftPM. The goal for GSoC is some kind of proof-of-concept and is expected to be the foundation of...

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Inlay type hints for SourceKit-LSP

Inlay hints take advantage of Swift's powerful type inference by visualizing inferred types throughout a Swift program in the editor. This makes it...

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Shared Storage for Property Wrappers

Property Wrappers are responsible for wrapping common getting and setting boilerplate and also for storing any auxiliary helpers. Often, these...

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A "Bite-Sized" BitArray

View the final API Review here: https://forums.swift.org/t/bit-array-and-bit-set-api-review-the-end-of-a-gsoc-project/51396

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Alive for SIL

The Alive for SIL project aims to build a tool that will find errors in optimizations performed by the Swift compiler. SIL (a.k.a. Swift Intermediate...

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2020

4 projects

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Localization of Compiler Diagnostic Messages

Diagnostics play a vital role in a programming language experience. It’s vital for developer productivity that the compiler can produce proper...

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LTO support for Swift

Swift supports multiple levels of optimizations per single module. This project aims to achieve LTO support for Swift at LLVM level and at Swift’s...

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Improving Swift’s Debugger experience on Linux

Debuggers are essential tools in aiding developers to do their work more efficiently. They are inherently tied to the target operating system, and...

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Swift (Server) Tracing

Libraries for Logging and Metrics, embraced by the Serverside Swift Work Group, have enabled many Swift projects to simplify their code bases by...

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2019

1 project

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Integrating libSyntax with the Rest of the Compiler Pipeline

Over the last couple of years, the Swift compiler has gained a new library called libSyntax. Its purpose is to represent the syntax of Swift source...

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2018

0 projects

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