Top 10 Swift Playground Projects

AudioKit

1 9 11,063 6.0 Swift

Audio synthesis, processing, & analysis platform for iOS, macOS and tvOS
Stream

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Awesome-Swift-Playgrounds

2 2 4,298 2.8 Swift

A List of Awesome Swift Playgrounds

Project mention: Ask HN: Any Recommendations Around Programming on an iPad? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-04

(I checked there doesn’t seem to be a straightforward way to do C in swift playgrounds. Bonus content: https://github.com/uraimo/Awesome-Swift-Playgrounds )
What I do for most of my coding on iPad is use Google Colab. https://colab.research.google.com/
It’s a Jupyter Notebook, but you can get most things including working with C. The below link confirms C can be bound to and how.
https://blog.jupyter.org/interactive-workflows-for-c-with-ju...
As a matter of point, iPads aren’t really set up tool wise for programming. You can force something into this niche, but you probably want a computer for coding, because a significant portion of programming is massaging the system into doing what you need.
swift-summary

3 1 1,669 1.8 Swift

A summary of Apple's Swift language written on Playgrounds
PlayAlways

4 0 549 0.0 Swift

Create Xcode playgrounds from your menu bar
Playground

5 2 449 0.0 Swift

Instantly create Swift playgrounds from the command line (by JohnSundell)
nef

6 0 270 0.0 Swift

💊 steroids for Xcode Playgrounds
swiftcn-ui

7 1 123 6.3 Swift

Beautiful and customizable SwiftUI components
InfluxDB

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MockSwift

8 1 90 0.0 Swift

MockSwift is a Mock library written in Swift.
Design_Patterns_With_Swift

9 1 32 4.4 Swift

Programming Design Patterns in Swift with simple examples
mini-jam

10 1 17 2.1 Swift

Tiny Digital Audio Workstation in a Swift Playground (WWDC 2020 winner)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Instantly create Xcode playgrounds from the command line

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Playground projects in Swift? This list will help you:

#	Project	Stars
1	AudioKit	11,063
2	Awesome-Swift-Playgrounds	4,298
3	swift-summary	1,669
4	PlayAlways	549
5	Playground	449
6	nef	270
7	swiftcn-ui	123
8	MockSwift	90
9	Design_Patterns_With_Swift	32
10	mini-jam	17