That Swift IDE
summary
A macOS Swift IDE called Swift Studio exists as a working alpha: it can open, build and run some projects and has about 3,000 people on a beta waitlist. It wires an NS text view/CoreText editor to SwiftSyntax for parsing, uses sourcekit-lsp* for language services, SwiftPM and the Swift build manifest for project builds, LLDB for remote debugging and Docker to run Linux-targeted builds. Major issues: Swift/NSString bridging slows editing, SwiftSyntax and SourceKit APIs change frequently, and overall tooling remains brittle.
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chapters (29)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:00About me
- 2:02History
- 3:53Debase
- 5:53Smalltalk
- 6:55Pascal
- 7:45Emacs
- 10:08CodeWarrior
- 10:37Visual Studio 1997
- 11:11Eclipse 2001
- 11:51Xcode 2003
- 12:29Visual Studio
- 13:00Swift Studio
- 14:27Emacs LSB
- 15:11Visual Studio Code
- 15:56Xcode
- 17:26Strings
- 18:50Drawing
- 19:23Indexing
- 20:26Highlighting
- 20:54Syntax
- 24:39Source Key
- 26:24Swift Package Manager
- 26:58Swift PM
- 27:18Swift PM Library
- 28:26Docker
- 30:27LSP
- 31:55Thirdparty tools
- 33:16Sign up
