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Apple is open sourcing Swift Build

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612 points dayanruben | 2 comments | 01 Feb 25 16:44 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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tux3 ◴[01 Feb 25 17:12 UTC] No.42899950[source]▶
The goal for Swift should (and seems) to be to gradually separate itself from XCode, which is holding it back from its ambitions.

XCode has been compared to many things, but at 3.1 stars on the App store, one must find that it is still slightly overrated.

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dlachausse ◴[01 Feb 25 17:15 UTC] No.42899981[source]▶
Swift hasn’t required Xcode for several years now. It has robust command line tooling and a VSCode plugin.

https://www.swift.org/documentation/articles/getting-started...

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tux3 ◴[01 Feb 25 17:20 UTC] No.42900031[source]▶
I believe it still does at least for iOS, or it did last time I checked (for a Swift library I was writing).
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1. jitl ◴[01 Feb 25 17:37 UTC] No.42900198[source]▶
Hence this announcement is great, since it seems to say they’re (going to?) support building GUI apps with SwiftPM and/or the newly open sourced build tool.
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2. Zanfa ◴[01 Feb 25 18:23 UTC] No.42900693[source]▶
SwiftPM has always supported building GUI apps.