The Niche Programmer

Re:The Niche Programmer by biellls on Sunday May 01, 2022 @12:46PM (#31226479)

I love swift but don't do any OS X development and don't want to use XCode. Not sure how the LSP plugin is doing these days but last time I tried it it was pretty unstable (also why can't they have it in the store so you won't need to install manually?). I wish swift for tensorflow had really taken off and put it in a position to compete with python as it's a very enjoyable language.

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Re:The Niche Programmer by ChrisMarshallNY on Sunday May 01, 2022 @01:39PM (#31226939)

I know a very good developer that uses AppCode, and swears by it. He is also a native Swift/UIKit developer.

Xcode is a bug farm. I would be filled with chagrin, if it were my project, but it's always easy to be a Monday morning quarterback.

It gets the job done.

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Re:The Niche Programmer by biellls on Sunday May 01, 2022 @02:04PM (#31227206)

Sounds like he's still in the apple ecosystem. What i wanted to do was use it for scripting and server stuff (swift for server and Linux) and I think AppCode was not compatible with that at the time.

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Re:The Niche Programmer by ChrisMarshallNY on Sunday May 01, 2022 @02:57PM (#31227657)

I'm pretty sure that Swift is an llvm frontend, and that there are probably a number of adapters for it.

Wouldn't surprise me a bit, if it could be done with Eclipse (not my favorite IDE).

It's certainly doable command-line.

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Re:The Niche Programmer by askonomm on Sunday May 01, 2022 @01:38PM (#31226933)

I've done some Swift using AppCode (https://www.jetbrains.com/objc/), a Jetbrains editor, and was very satisfied.

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Re:The Niche Programmer by biellls on Sunday May 01, 2022 @02:02PM (#31227184)

I remember trying that but I wanted to write swift for server and Linux and it was geared entirely to OS X and iOS apps at the time.

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