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> Support for non-Apple platforms is also improving, as is the support for other, LSP-based development environments.

Improving, as in ready now or still far in the future?

What does the current state of Swift look like for Linux and Windows? And how well does the LSP server function today?

I can’t speak to the current state of swift on other platforms directly/in detail. But I would point to the Arc browser being built using swift for both the windows and MacOS versions. They’ve also open-sourced a number of tools they built to make that work

https://github.com/thebrowsercompany

Usable now for sure. I’ve been doing Swift development in VS Code which uses the LSP under the hood and it pretty much does what I expect an editor to do.

Both the VS Code extension and the LSP are open source and seem pretty active, so hopefully they’ll get even better over time.

The package ecosystem does feel sparse, especially coming from doing Node development.

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