Swift 3.0 Preview 1 Release Branch

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Hop over to swift.org to download the first Swift 3.0 PR 1 installer.  Double-click to install, authenticate as admin. Once you do, the toolchain will appear in the Xcode > Toolchains submenu.

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When you select a new toolchain, Xcode needs to quit and relaunch. It will ask you to confirm that’s what you want to do. Give it a few seconds to catch up with itself.

3.0 PR 1 is not compatible with playgrounds. The easiest way to play around with code is to create a Cocoa command-line app (or, if you really need to, use a single view UIKit app, but it’s a lot more complicated) to try out the new syntax, test libraries, and get a feel for what’s new and changed.

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Now that the toolchain is readily available, I’ll be posting highlights of new features when I get some time.

4 Comments

  • Unfortunately, I can’t get the preview to work. It crashes Xcode as soon as it tries to display a source file. It doesn’t matter if it is a brand new project, or not. I’ve tried removing and reinstalling Xcode and the preview toolchain. I have also deleted the ~/Library/Developer folder, preferences, and cache files. About the only thing left to do would be a complete reinstall of the OS, which I am not too interested in doing. Sadly, seems about par for the course for SourceKit.

  • I can’t seem to find the Swift 3 preview snapshot on the downloads page. Downloaded it from github releases page instead.

  • The first Swift 3.0 PR 1 installer had gone away unnoticed…