IDEs and editors for swift on Linux

swift-ide-editor-on-linux.md

I wrote this notes in the era of Swift 2, so it is very outdated. So this is for history interest only.

CLion

Tested on Linux.

• No code highlight if code has not been compiled once.
• Code completion does not work on import modules, including Foundation.

Sublime Text

• Syntax highlight: Swift for F*ing Sublime has "goto symbol" support, better than Swift (no "goto" support).

• Lint: SublimeLinter-contrib-swiftlint depends on SwiftLint, which has no Linux support yet.

• Completion:

  • SwiftKitten depends on SourceKit, which requires Mac OS X.
  • swift-api-to-snippet is a command line tool for parsing swift files in a directory and outputting a .sublime-completions json file, which can then be used by Sublime Text to give completion suggestions.
  • Swift Foundation Completions uses swift-api-to-snippet to generate completions for Foundation. It has basic completions for methods and properties.

Vim

Vim has several plugins for Swift file type (syntax). The only completion plugin uses SourceKit, which requires Mac OS X. Thus vim has less support for Swift than Sublime Text on Linux.