Swift Tooling for Windows
published on 2024/05/20
Visual Studio Code (hereafter “VS Code”) is the development environment of choice for writing Swift code on Windows. The Swift Server Workgroup publishes an official Swift extension for VS Code, which serves as the primary integration point for a great deal of Swift tooling. All the IDE features you would expect are available: building and debugging with breakpoints; running and debugging tests; code navigation, autocomplete, and hover documentation; inline error reporting; and more. In addition to the first-party Swift extension, there are a plethora of other ways to extend VS Code to enhance the development experience. For example, GitHub’s AI-powered Copilot extension works great with Swift!