![]() In a way, some people might say this is what Playgrounds is. It will be completely designed for Swift 5.0 and upwards with SwiftUI only, dropping all of Objective-C and every Swift version prior to Swift 5.0, calling the app something else (sort of like how they slightly renamed iMovie HD to iMovie and the Final Cut Pro 7 sequel became Final Cut Pro X and then just Pro), while still maintaining Xcode as the stable, feature-rich version developed in parallel with the new development tool. Maybe some day in the future (maybe?) they will start fresh with a new app development tool written from scratch. I'm starting to think the task of trimming Xcode is too unwieldy at this point. ![]() That is mindblowing to me, but I think both VS Pro and Xcode contains a lot of baggage, a lot of backwards compatibility. This is pretty interesting, though, because, likewise, Microsoft Visual Studio Professional apparently installs more than 700k (seven hundred thousand) registry entries. But despite that, just look at the number of files it unzips when you install it from a direct download: I've seen it report an install of more than 500k (!) files). I know Apple has rewritten the code base multiple times already, perhaps the biggest one being Xcode 4.0 (btw, those Xcode 4 betas were crazy unstable). ![]() One day we might see a STRIPPED down SwiftUI? or just Swift Xcode. Definitely a stepping stone, but Xcode is a BEAST. ![]()
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