
However, the IDE–the editor, project management, indexing, navigation, build system, graphical debugger, visual data modeling, SCM system, refactoring, project snapshots, etc.–is a Mac OS X Cocoa application, and is not portable. Now min level of the toolchain for XCode (the GCC compiler family, the gdb debugger, etc.) is the open-source and public to Unix and Linux platforms.

The -dev suffix on the version number is used to indicate that it’s a development build, not a released version.

Now it’s time to authenticate and very that you have the latest version of Swift by entering the swift command and passing the –version flag:Īpple Swift version 2.2-dev (LLVM …, Clang …, Swift …)
