Subtree Split the Core

[CodaFi]

Related to #118

I think with #131 it's high time the core became its own µFramework and possibly get a name change.

Thoughts, ideas, names, cash, I'll take them all.

[pthariensflame]

Isn't that what typelift/Basis is for?

[CodaFi]

No. I'm going to leave the Basis around as an exploration of pure declarative programming in Swift rather than just FP idioms like we're doing here. I will mark it as such. The code it produces is horrendously inefficient but tremendously beautiful. Such a creature cannot be allowed to ship...

The Core at this point is Box, Result, Either, List, the operator sections, and some combinators and I would like to see it removed from Swiftz so we can focus on higher abstractions and instances instead of rudimentary data structures.

[pthariensflame]

How about "SwiftX", then?

[CodaFi]

Reminds me too much of my poor Swift-Extras :)

Spitballing Here:

• LambdaKit
• CoreFP
• SwiftPlus
• Abstraction
• TypeKit
• Prelude
• STLExt
• LiftKit

[pthariensflame]

How about TLKit, if we want that style of name?

[CodaFi]

Or

• AirLift
• LiftedSwift
• BaseLift
• TypeLiftCore
• Skyline
• CoreData /s

[gfontenot]

... CoreData seems like a bad choice.

[CodaFi]

@gfontenot 😈

@pthariensflame
This is tough... I'd prefer we follow both the Swift and Cocoa framework naming conventions. Cocoa necessitates expanding acronyms and either ending with -Kit, or beginning with Core. Swift prefers concrete nouns. That means either TypeLiftKit (which implies we're sticking all the work of the org in one place), or some other noun that truly encapsulates what it means to cram a bunch of foundational data types into a lib -without calling it Foundation :P.

[CodaFi]

OK. Let's a least offer 3 of our favorites so we can narrow the field. No decisions yet:

For me it's

• AirLift
• TLKit
• LiftKit

[pthariensflame]

Of those, three, I favor TLKit, but not super-strongly.

[CodaFi]

@pthariensflame Do you have two more suggestions picked out?

[pthariensflame]

I think I already suggested SwiftX, but I could also maybe get behind SwiftFP, or TLCore, or most anything of those patterns.

[CodaFi]

CoreFP maybe (punning CoreFoundation)... I'm starting to warm to that kind of name.

+1 SwiftX too. Implies we're just extending the STL rather than throwing in a bunch of new stuff like Swiftz does.

[CodaFi]

💡 How about a different stylization of SwiftX? As in Swiftx. If you want full Swiftz, you just move over a key :)

[pthariensflame]

Swiftx is perfect!

[CodaFi]

Then.

Tonight's the night.

[CodaFi]

Finished.