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Features

• Swift Linting Standards - Establishes a comprehensive set of rule sets and standards to enforce consistent syntax and style in Swift.
• Immutable Variables - Prioritizes the use of constants over variables to prevent accidental state mutation and improve thread safety.
• Type Safety - Improves overall type safety by mandating constants and explicit optional handling.
• Swift Type Safety Patterns - Provides guidelines for implementing immutable bindings and safe optional handling to prevent runtime crashes.
• Architectural Governance - Provides a framework for enforcing project-wide architectural constraints and design goals within Swift projects.
• Protocol-Oriented Design - Promotes protocol-oriented design and protocol composition to reduce coupling and complexity.
• Value Unwrapping - Standardizes explicit unwrapping techniques for optional types to eliminate runtime crashes.
• Layer Visibility Enforcement - Maintains strict boundaries between architectural layers through the application of visibility modifiers.
• Composition Over Inheritance - Provides standards for favoring composition and protocol-oriented design over deep class inheritance hierarchies.
• Swift Access Control Standards - Defines the application of explicit visibility modifiers to protect internal logic in Swift.
• Swift Architectural Guidelines - Sets standards for prioritizing value types and composition over complex class inheritance hierarchies.
• Value Type Prioritization - Favors structs and enums over classes to ensure predictable state and reduce memory overhead.
• Explicit Modifier Requirements - Enforces explicit visibility modifiers on top-level definitions to protect internal implementation details.
• Explicit Visibility Enforcement - Hides internal logic from external components by applying explicit access control specifiers.
• Code Style Standardization - Provides guidelines for maintaining consistent whitespace, indentation, and visual structure across the codebase.
• Access Control Policies - Defines policies for applying explicit visibility modifiers to isolate internal implementation details from public APIs.
• Architectural Preference Standards - Provides architectural standards for choosing between value and reference types to simplify maintenance.
• Code Readability Optimizations - Implements techniques to improve code readability through patterns like early exits and concise property declarations.
• Early Return Patterns - Standardizes logic flows by using early returns to align the happy path and improve readability.
• Early-Return Patterns - Implements early-return patterns using guard statements to reduce nesting and handle edge cases efficiently.
• Swift API Design Guidelines - Offers design guidelines for creating robust and type-safe APIs in Swift.
• General - Applies safety patterns including immutable bindings and safe optional handling to prevent crashes.
• Programming Language Standards - Official Swift style and conventions.
• Coding Standards - Swift coding style and habits guide.

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