Current state of tools for developing Swift code on Linux (or on the Mac but with Xcode). Presented to SwiftAustin on April 5th, 2017 https://www.meetup.com/SwiftAustin/events/238281895/

1. Swift without Xcode - GUI Edition
SwiftAustin 17-04-05

2. Use Cases
Linux vs Mac
"I hate Xcode"
Remote Access
Possibly to Swift code installed
in a Cloud

3. SourceKit
"What is SourceKit?"
How do you get it?
With Xcode
From source (takes a while)
Now in Docker

4. Sublime
OS X only for SourceKit
Could probably be made to work
with Linux easier now

5. VS Code
SDE
Installable in VSCode
Setup scripts at https://github.com/
felix91gr/swift-linuxSetup
Vagrant setup at https://github.com/
SwiftAustin/LinuxSwiftGUISetup
OS X support tricky (see issue #33)
Development slowing down

6. Vagrant
Setup and config files at https://github.com/SwiftAustin/
LinuxSwiftGUISetup

8. Autocomplete
Variable and method completion, context aware

9. Popup Type information
Hover over a variable to get its type
Matters more in Swift than in many languages

10. Debugging
It’s a start, but does a poor job of following modules (#7)
Console not hooked up, yet (#22)

11. Linux "Instruments"
valgrind is the primary tool
Poor, poor substitute for Instruments
But, some GUIs

12. KCacheGrind
Handles valgrind’s “CallGrind”
tool
Looks for CPU usage and spikes

13. Valkyrie
memcheck tool
Better than text, but not by too
much

14. massif visualizer
For memory usage tracking