Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?

Question

It's one thing having to download this monstrosity, and a whole other, having to use it daily to write code.

brudgers · Accepted Answer

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sandruso · Answer

I had xcede[0] setup that worked well.[0] https://codeberg.org/luxmentis/xcede

indemnity · Answer

I use Xcode, but just to run the app with Command-R so I can see log messages or stack traces if I need to drop it into the agent for analysis. Everything else is done by Claude Code / Codex.I even read the source using Zed not Xcode :)

Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?

It's one thing having to download this monstrosity, and a whole other, having to use it daily to write code.

[delayed]

I had xcede[0] setup that worked well.
[0] https://codeberg.org/luxmentis/xcede

I use Xcode, but just to run the app with Command-R so I can see log messages or stack traces if I need to drop it into the agent for analysis. Everything else is done by Claude Code / Codex.
I even read the source using Zed not Xcode :)