Introducing Swift on Windows

The Swift project is introducing new downloadable Swift toolchain images for Windows! These images contain development components needed to build and run Swift code on Windows.

For over a year now, there has been a significant endeavour to port Swift to Windows in conjunction with the developer community at swift.org. The Windows support is now at a point where early adopters can start using Swift to build real experiences on this platform.

→ swift.org/blog/swift-on-windows/

The Swift project now offers downloadable toolchain images for Windows, enabling developers to build and run Swift code on this platform. This milestone includes support for the compiler, standard library, and core libraries like dispatch, Foundation, and XCTest, with seamless C interoperability for leveraging Windows libraries.

Early adopters like Readdle have successfully used Swift for cross-platform applications, such as porting Spark’s core modules to Windows, integrating with tools like Electron and Node.js.

The effort involved significant community collaboration, with ongoing work to enhance features like Swift Package Manager and LLDB support for a robust Windows ecosystem.