If you’re a Swift Playgrounds fan as well as an open-source aficionado, you’re going to like this.
Over the weekend, Apple announced that the company is making Swift Build open-source. Swift Build functions as the engine used by both Xcode as well as Apple’s internal projects.
Apple offered the following comment on Saturday:
“As Swift expands, there’s value in investing in matching cross-platform build tools that provide a powerful, consistent, and flexible experience across the ecosystem.
As a foundational step in this new chapter of Swift build technologies, today Apple is open sourcing Swift Build, a powerful and extensible build engine that provides a set of build rules for building Swift projects. Swift Build is the engine used by Xcode, which supports millions of apps in the App Store as well as the internal build process for Apple’s own operating systems.”
The company said that this would remove the confusion caused by having two different build packages, and pave the way for new features.
For those interested in downloading and tinkering with it, Swift Build is now available on GitHub.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via 9to5Mac, swift.org, and Daring Fireball