If you’re still in #Tokyo after 「try! Swift Tokyo 2025」 conf and want grab drinks with a few other local devs and chat, join us this evening at the Tokyo iOS Meetup happening at BrewDog Roppongi (kindly organized by @timoliver ):
https://meetu.ps/e/P0ZtF/7cssW/i
#SwiftDev #SwiftDevMeetup #TokyoIOSMeetup #iOSDevs #iOSDevCommunity
- For Visual Studio Code based editors though, if you'd like an extra awesome plugin to run your projects in any the simulators available with your Xcode setup or directly on your physical testing device, as well as different builds (schemes), check out the #SweetPad plugin: https://github.com/sweetpad-dev/sweetpad.
With all these combined, you can pretty much get by and only launch Xcode sparingly when you need to make project changes that are better suited to be made there.
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- Visual Studio Code as well as editors built on top of it (Cursor, etc..): Here's a good article on setting it up: https://www.swift.org/documentation/articles/getting-started-with-vscode-swift.html
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Sometimes, Xcode can get in the way of the work you're trying to do. Even in its latest version with intelligent code completion. If you sometimes prefer using other editors, here are a couple of tips.
- Zed: I wrote a short article about setting it up for Swift-based projects: https://medium.com/@creativewithin/how-i-got-zed-editor-working-with-swift-projects-60ea78d4165e
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Serious QoL improvements: the (@)Previewable macro. So nice…
Be gone Binding.constant(_:)!
Someone please tell me that the Previews Canvas no longer crashes every 5 mins in #Xcode 16 RC.
Today was a good day.
Today was one heck of a productive day.
Got to add something fun featuring @freshcut to the GluSight app (making tracking diabetes related matters easier).
We’re almost at go live time. But right now it’s 2 am and I will make more progress on a rested mind. ✌🏾
Jay ᯅ | iOS Dev 
