List of Swift software and tools

This is a list of software and programming tools for the Swift programming language, which includes frameworks, libraries, IDEs, build tools, and related projects.

Frameworks, libraries, and APIs Alamofire — HTTP networking library Cocoa — Apple’s native API for macOS Cocoa Touch — variant of Cocoa for iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS. Kitura — web framework from IBM (now community maintained) Metal (API) – low-overhead hardware-accelerated 3D graphic and compute shader API Perfect — server-side Swift web framework RxSwift — reactive programming library for Swift SceneKit — A 3D graphics framework often used with Swift and SwiftUI for rendering scenes and animations SnapKit — Auto Layout DSL for iOS/macOS SwiftNIO — event-driven networking framework SwiftGraph — a graph data structure and algorithms library SwiftProtobuf — Protocol Buffers implementation for Swift SwiftUI – declarative framework for building user interfaces and Swift Charts for Apple operating systems SwiftyJSON — easier JSON handling in Swift Vapor — web application framework for Swift

Machine learning and AI Swift for TensorFlow — experimental deep learning framework from Google (discontinued, but open source) Core ML — Apple’s machine learning framework for on-device inference Create ML — Apple’s macOS app and framework for training ML models

Math and scientific computing Surge — Swift framework for linear algebra, DSP, and math functions Accelerate framework — Apple’s high-performance math and DSP library for Swift and Objective-C

Integrated development environments Xcode — Apple’s official IDE for Swift and Objective-C AppCode — IDE for Swift from JetBrains Swift Playgrounds — educational environment for iPad and macOS Visual Studio Code — with Swift extensions via SourceKit-LSP

Text editors with Swift support GNU Emacs — Swift mode and LSP support Sublime Text — Swift syntax and build system plugins TextMate – via official Swift bundle providing syntax highlighting and snippets Vim — via Swift Vim plugins and Neovim Visual Studio Code — Swift LSP support through SourceKit-LSP Zed — fork of Atom with support for Swift

Build tools and package managers Swift Package Manager (SwiftPM) — official dependency manager for Swift CocoaPods — dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C projects Carthage — decentralized dependency manager Bazel — build system with Swift rules support

Compilers and runtimes LLVM Swift for Windows — community distribution of Swift on Windows Swift WASM — Swift toolchain for WebAssembly

Debugging and profiling tools Instruments — performance analysis and profiling tool bundled with Xcode LLDB — debugger used by Swift (via LLVM project) Xcode memory graph debugger

Testing and quality assurance XCTest — official unit testing framework bundled with Swift Quick — behavior-driven development (BDD) framework Nimble — matcher framework often used with Quick

List of Swift software and tools

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