Writing and Running Swift Code without Xcode on Mac and Windows

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Visual Studio Community

First, you'll need Visual Studio Community (at the time of writing this blogpost, Visual Studio 2022 is the most recent version). Get it via winget install --id=Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.Community -e , or directly via Visual Studio Community if you don't have winget installed. Winget (winget) is a package manager for Windows like chocolatey and scoop. They have been compared numerous times.

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Homebrew

Firstly, install Xcode or the Xcode command line tools. I recommend installing the package manager brew (homebrew). It installs Xcode command line tools for you and comes in handy when you install software that's not in the App Store (and even if it is!).

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