[armchairhacker]

Swift had good support in JetBrains AppCode.

Maybe it still does, but probably not, because AppCode was sunsetted at the end of 2022 and stopped receiving updates in 2023 (https://blog.jetbrains.com/appcode/2022/12/appcode-2022-3-re...). Which is really unfortunate.

If Swift ever gets good support outside of Apple, I wouldn’t be surprised if JetBrains starts working on their Swift plugin again and releases it for IntelliJ and CLion. But despite this migration, my understanding is that Swift on Linux and the new Foundation (non-Apple standard library) is still lacking.

[pudwallabee]

AppCode was ten times the IDE xcode is, only problem is they couldnt parse Apple’s storyboards and xibs reliably and probably due to some proprietary knowledge required to make that work.

I loved AppCode because I could go into a clients iOS app and the linter would immediately show so many problems that were easily fixable but Xcode would never show. I was sad to see it go.

[pharaohgeek]

Writing server-side Swift in AppCode or CLion was a breeze, too. The interface was so much friendlier than XCode. It's a real shame they discontinued Swift support.

[frizlab]

It has good support in VSCode already.