Building Swift Packages in VSCode

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Demonstrates the Swift for VSCode extension wiring SourceKit LSP, lldb and SwiftPM to give code completion, syntax highlighting, package editing and test runs with near parity to Xcode; shows live debugging of a Vapor app on macOS and inside a Linux Remote Container, plus running the same environment in GitHub Codespaces for iPad development. Notes iOS/macOS app builds aren’t supported yet, package-local replacement works, and monthly Swift updates iterate faster than Xcode releases.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speaker background
2. 1:49History of IDEs and Swift tools
3. 6:02Swift project components and IDE needs
4. 8:33VSCode Swift extension overview
5. 12:44Live demo of VSCode Swift extension
6. 18:25Remote development with Docker containers
7. 22:02Editing package dependencies locally
8. 24:50Developing on iPad with GitHub Codespaces
9. 28:51Recap and future of Swift in VSCode
10. 31:38Acknowledgments and Swift conference

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