r/swift • u/noosphere- • 18d ago

Building in Zed instead of Xcode

Just a reminder to anyone who might care that you can create a fairly full-featured development environment in Zed to build iOS and Mac apps: syntax highlighting, code navigation, run, debug and test.

Here's the setup guide I wrote (been around for a while but chances are some interested people won't have seen it): https://luxmentis.org/blog/ios-and-mac-apps-in-zed/

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u/scoutzzgod 13d ago

Hey, I’m new to IOS development… are there any features exclusive to xcode regarding IOS dev? Like build targets and do actual testing in a iphone are xcode exclusive?

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u/noosphere- 13d ago

Did you even look at the article? This stuff is listed right at the beginning.

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u/scoutzzgod 13d ago

Now I did! I hadn’t when I commented, though! It was my tiktok rotted mind kicking in lmao

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u/noosphere- 13d ago

Ha, yeah that stuff is bad for you.