All I want for Christmas is swiftc incremental compilation. Turns out: making production software without it is a pretty bad idea. Oops.
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Not really, but it sure feels slow when you have to recompile several hundred files every time you change one character.
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has anyone at Apple addressed this publicly? I'm sure it's high on the list.
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Yeah, they've said on the dev forums that it's one of their highest priorities. Just wish I'd realized before I started.
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if it's bad enough, you could make a light-build script that builds _touched_ files and relinks.
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Hey, now that's interesting.
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definitely, lack of incremental compiling killed writing tests for me on our Swift app. Wasn’t worth the dev time for a v1.
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would breaking up your app into modules help with the compile time?
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Can't: we target iOS 7. Swift can't be used in static libs; iOS 7 won't run apps with embedded frameworks.
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