Swift is exploring a cute idea for library transparency: you can distinguish between "this ABI is guaranteed to keep working" and "I want an extra layer of indirection so I can add to data structures without breaking downstream users".
https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-library-evolution-for-stable-abis/23026
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