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Swift struggles so much when compiling even moderately sized codebases, I worry this choice will prove untenable in the long term.


Swift or XCode?

I've experienced very fast Swift compilations, but when compiling an app - which will invoke additional tooling with XCode - is the slowest part.

In my experience anyway. I am genuinely curious!


I've only used it within XCode so can't say which is to blame, but I did frequently get the message "The compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time; try breaking up the expression into distinct sub-expressions" which seems to be a problem with the language/compiler/type system, not XCode per se


I agree with this, i've been avoiding xcode as much as possible for my little swift projects, but now I do wonder if that still stands for large codebases, I guess you could try and find some big codebases on swift on gh and see how much it takes to compile




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