alt Hacker NewsI still don’t understand the Xcode rant. Using Swift can be done in any LSP-compatible text editor (VSCode, which even has a first-party extension for Swift, but also zed, Sublime Text, etc.)
Unless you’re doing Apple-specific development, you don’t need Xcode.
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Agreed. People use any thread mentioning swift to dunk on Apple for X number of reasons with vague details and regurgitated dogma. I get Xcode has quirks I use it everyday believe me I know but it's not that bad that it's unusable.
Why would you bother using Swift if you're not targeting Apple? I can imagine wanting to use it for something cross-platform that is primarily an ios/macos thing.
But if you don't want to include those I wouldn't pick a language that's under control of a company I don't use.
It's a bit like using c# or powershell on Linux. Yes it can be done and it's helpful for cross platform with windows but I wouldn't consider it a first class citizen.
What company is using Swift outside of Apple-specific development?
LSP support isn't great. It keeps improving however. Used to get quite a few crashes. And I think background indexing still doesn't work.