Swiftly 1.0 Released: Simplifying Swift Toolchain Management

2025-03-30
Swiftly 1.0 Released: Simplifying Swift Toolchain Management

Swiftly 1.0 is officially here! This community-supported Swift version manager is now an official part of the core Swift toolchain. It simplifies installing, managing, and updating your Swift toolchain across various platforms, including Linux and macOS. Swiftly supports installing stable releases, nightly snapshots, and older versions, allowing for seamless switching between multiple toolchains. You can even standardize versions across your development team using a `.swift-version` file in your project. Written in Swift itself and self-updating, Swiftly streamlines your Swift development workflow.

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Development Version Manager

Apple Open Sources Swift Build: A Unified Build System for Swift

2025-02-01
Apple Open Sources Swift Build: A Unified Build System for Swift

Apple has open-sourced Swift Build, its powerful and extensible build engine used by Xcode and Apple's own operating systems. Swift Build aims to provide a consistent and flexible cross-platform build experience for Swift projects, supporting Linux and Windows. It features robust integration with the Swift compiler, build graph optimizations for maximum parallelism, and support for a wide variety of product types. This addresses inconsistencies between different build systems used in Swift Package Manager and Xcode. This move should provide Swift developers with a more consistent and efficient development experience, laying the groundwork for future improvements and optimizations.

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Development Build System