swiftenv vs FBSimulatorControl

swiftenv

Swift Version Manager (by kylef)

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swiftenv.fuller.li

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FBSimulatorControl

idb is a flexible command line interface for automating iOS simulators and devices (by facebook)

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fbidb.io

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swiftenv		FBSimulatorControl
	Project
2	Mentions	3
1,958	Stars	4,425
-	Growth	0.9%
1.8	Activity	8.4
5 months ago	Latest Commit	7 days 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?

FBSimulatorControl

Posts with mentions or reviews of FBSimulatorControl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-10.

Mobile app testing easier with Maestro (React Native)
5 projects | dev.to | 10 May 2023

Facebook IDB: https://github.com/facebook/idb
Which IDB commands do you use the most?
1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 13 Apr 2023

If you are using IDB (iOS Development Bridge), which commands do you use the most?
Test your react native app with maestro
5 projects | dev.to | 22 Dec 2022

Running flows on iOS Simulator requires installation of Facebook IDB.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing swiftenv and FBSimulatorControl you can also consider the following projects:

XCSwiftr - An Xcode Plugin to convert Objective-C to Swift

appledoc - Objective-c code Apple style documentation set generator.

SwiftKitten

fastlane-plugin-appicon - Generate required icon sizes and iconset from a master application icon.

SourceKitten - An adorable little framework and command line tool for interacting with SourceKit.

GDPerformanceView-Swift - Shows FPS, CPU and memory usage, device model, app and iOS versions above the status bar and report FPS, CPU and memory usage via delegate.

Kin - Sane PBXProj files

BuildTimeAnalyzer - Build Time Analyzer for Swift

Struct - Xcode projects on steroids

XcodeGen - A Swift command line tool for generating your Xcode project