swiftenv vs XCSwiftr

swiftenv

Swift Version Manager (by kylef)

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swiftenv.fuller.li

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XCSwiftr

An Xcode Plugin to convert Objective-C to Swift (by dzenbot)

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swiftenv		XCSwiftr
	Project
2	Mentions	-
1,958	Stars	338
-	Growth	-
1.8	Activity	0.0
5 months ago	Latest Commit	about 7 years ago
Shell	Language	Objective-C
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License	License	MIT License

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swiftenv

Posts with mentions or reviews of swiftenv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.

Writing Gnome Apps with Swift
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2024

which is at most half-truth cause this is just official installers and most likely you'll use some sort of rustup (which wasn't official few years ago) you can use https://github.com/kylef/swiftenv you can use community packages https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swift etc.
"and so on is that languages other that swift aim to support linux in general." -> again not true linux distro dosen't change swift usage it is just official build is run for few most popular distros and you can use prebuild swift-bin on any linux repo. (arch, debina, ubuntu, centos etc. etc.) You can say the same stuff about rust/nim/go every other language that didn't have official release for some niche linux distro.
Writing and Running Swift Code without Xcode on Mac and Windows
2 projects | dev.to | 31 Dec 2023

One disadvantage of Swift is how Apple decided to deploy new versions. They only come bundled with new versions of their operating systems. However, with swiftenv (kylef/swiftenv) other versions than the bundled one can be installed. So maybe that adds a possibility to run more modern swift versions on older hardware?

XCSwiftr

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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Kin - Sane PBXProj files

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BuildTimeAnalyzer - Build Time Analyzer for Swift

Laurine - Laurine - Localization code generator written in Swift. Sweet!

FBSimulatorControl - idb is a flexible command line interface for automating iOS simulators and devices

xcenv - Groom your Xcode environment.