Ditch Swift differentiation implementation#45
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Compiling the project with a snapshot version of a Swift 6 toolchain has not been an experience I would blatantly call "delightful".
Sudden
SourceKitServicecrashesThe
_Differentiationmodule also seems unready for non-experimental usage, seen that even trivialities like extending one of its types (e.g., making a type differentiable) may (or may not!) crashSourceKitService. As explained in #40, which introduces fields into Deus and, therefore, requires differentiation:https://github.com/project-deus/Deus/blob/59455693eb99556ff3b5eb8200e481339962b972/QuantumMechanics/Field/Space.swift#L34-L38
Possible SPM–toolchain incompatibility
On top of that, there seems to be an issue with SPM on such a version of the Swift toolchain: setting it as that with which
xcbuildbuilds and tests the project errors with:(Which is rather funny: why is
fatalErrorbeing output? Why is the warning being run as a shell command? 🥸)(See #44 and https://github.com/project-deus/Deus/actions/runs/17702698250/job/50310350535.)
Because of these issues, which are halting advancements on the project, insisting on using differentiation implemented by Swift has proven to not be a good idea. The solution appears to be to do so manually.