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I think that Swift Playgrounds is a really neat idea (especially the books thing).

That said, I don't really have much interest in it, for myself. I am stuck in the dark world of Xcode.

What I would like (and have submitted the idea to Apple as a feature request), is to have a playground as an Xcode project target. I want to be able to link in modules and resources, without editing the playground file by hand.

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Xcode 13.2 (and maybe earlier) contains a project template for a "Swift Playgrounds App" in the iOS category.

Awesome! I’ll check it out!

Thanks!

I would use it for prototypes and in-place testing.

Found it, but it's not what I need.

I need a target to be a playground; not a project.

The idea is to be able to assign resources, files, and SPM modules to a playground, so they are available to the code running in the playground (an example might be an SPM module like my Generic Swift Toolbox Module[0]). I can then work with the code I'm prototyping in a lightweight text file.

[0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Generic_Swift_Tool...

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