The Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies

Swift continues to grow in popularity as a cross-platform language supporting a wide variety of use cases, with support on a variety of embedded devices, form factors that encompass wearables to server, and a wide variety of operating systems. As Swift expands, there’s value in investing in matching cross-platform build tools that provide a powerful, consistent, and flexible experience across the ecosystem.

→ swift.org/blog/the-next-chapter-in-swift-build-technologies/

Apple has open-sourced Swift Build, a powerful build engine used by Xcode, now available for Linux and Windows, to provide a consistent and efficient build experience across Swift’s growing ecosystem.

Swift Build, built on the llbuild project, integrates robustly with the Swift compiler, supports diverse product types like libraries and GUI apps, and optimises build graphs for parallelism.

It aims to unify the build process across Swift Package Manager and Xcode, reducing discrepancies and enabling future performance enhancements. The Swift team has submitted a pull request to integrate Swift Build into SwiftPM, maintaining compatibility with existing packages while fostering a polished, cross-platform developer experience.