Video - Building Swift Packages in VSCode - Tim Condon - Swift Heroes 2022

Reasons to use Other IDEs for Swift

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What Goes Into Building an IDE

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• swiftc: The compiler
• SPM
• LLDB
• SourceKit
  • SourceKit-LSP: The language server protocol.
    • Enables IDE’s to have Swift features like inline errors and “Fix It” buttons
• testing tools

VS Code

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Caveats

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• No Apple-only frameworks
  • SwiftUI, CoreML etc.
• Can’t use Apple SDKs
• Can’t build macOS/iOS Apps (easily)

Demo

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