Swift: Foundation Package Preview Now Available

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A new Swift blog post/announcement has been posted!

I’m pleased to announce that a preview of the future of Foundation is now available on GitHub!

This preview provides a unified implementation of Foundation, written in Swift, that is faster, safer, and more approachable to new contributors.

A new Foundation Workgroup will run reviews of proposed Foundation API and coordinate the needs of the Swift community with Apple engineering.

While the new package is not yet complete, it provides the first building blocks of our unified Swift implementation and I am eager to provide it to the Swift community for early testing and contributions.

Current State

The following types are available in the preview package, with more to come later. Many types, including JSONEncoder, https://swift.org/blog/foundation-preview-now-available/