Ask HN: Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?

It's one thing having to download this monstrosity, and a whole other, having to use it daily to write code.

9 points | by p5v 3 hours ago

4 comments

indemnity 1 hour ago
I use Xcode, but just to run the app with Command-R so I can see log messages or stack traces if I need to drop it into the agent for analysis. Everything else is done by Claude Code / Codex.
I even read the source using Zed not Xcode :)
sandruso 1 hour ago
I had xcede[0] setup that worked well.
[0] https://codeberg.org/luxmentis/xcede
brudgers 2 hours ago
https://www.swift.org/documentation/articles/zero-to-swift-e...
You could probably use Emacs for Swift...just like for about every other language.
Whether you still must download a monstrosity is left as an exercise for the reader.
taraharris 3 hours ago
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