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612 points dayanruben | 1 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.

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.

airstrike ◴[01 Feb 25 17:35 UTC] No.42900176[source]▶

Despite being terrible, the last time I checked, the experience in Xcode was somehow still meaningfully better than with the VSCode plugin

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What don’t you like about the VSCode plugin?

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jitl ◴[01 Feb 25 23:10 UTC] No.42903491[source]▶

For me it just spins forever and never manages to do any LSP things

1. rescripting ◴[01 Feb 25 23:40 UTC] No.42903767[source]▶

If you haven’t tried recently I’d give it another go. A lot of work has gone in to the LSP this past year to stabilize it and improve performance.

Apple is open sourcing Swift Build