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How we built an interpreter for Swift

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82 points jacobx | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 16:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dfabulich ◴[04 Sep 25 18:18 UTC] No.45130428[source]▶
Could you use this to support hot module replacement? Replacing a SwiftUI view in a live app without restarting the process?
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jacobx ◴[04 Sep 25 18:26 UTC] No.45130541[source]▶
Yeah you could! The only caveat is that either the whole app, or at least the part of the app showing the view you want to replace, would have to be running via the interpreter.

We're very interested in using the interpreter to improve the Swift developer experience in more ways like that.

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1. fragmede ◴[05 Sep 25 01:04 UTC] No.45133991[source]▶
I bet you could make a ton of money just selling a better dev experience as an xcode add-on to Swift devs without even having the AI component. (But making an app on my phone with AI is unbelievably neat!).