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

pp5v about 5 hours ago 4 comments

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

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brudgers•about 4 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.

whynotmaybe•about 1 hour ago

I'm using flutter and had to download xcode to build the app so I guess it's a necessary step.

sandruso•about 3 hours ago

I had xcede[0] setup that worked well.

[0] https://codeberg.org/luxmentis/xcede

indemnity•about 3 hours 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 :)