[fastball]

Your wishlist seems midly contradictory. Why does Apple need to open-source XCode if they also provide support for 3rd party IDEs (which they already do, btw)? Also what do you not like about cocoapods for package management?

Plenty of people make an incredible amount of money building apps in Swift, so your last sentence is just wrong.

[aristofun]

Decent support for 3d party IDE would mean open sourcing all critical xcode parts that currently leave developers no choice.

Cocoapods is too old and bad for modern era package management. It’s not made for swift also.

[akmarinov]

Swift Package Manager exists

Cocoapods has been end of life’d