Can I create a Cocoa app that is only a Swift script?

Using Swift
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I want the entire code for my entire Mac app to look like this .swift script:

#!/path/to/swift
import Cocoa
// The rest of my entire Mac app.

Because we don't yet have binary stability, I guess I'd have to put the swift binary (which runs the above .swift script) and a bunch of .dylibs into the Mac .app bundle somehow.

Is this possible to do and if so, how?

2

Why do you want to do this?
What to you mean by “binary stability?”
Why not use Xcode to build an application using the swift compiler?

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On Jun 20, 2017, at 10:34 AM, tuuranton--- via swift-users <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:

I want the entire code for my entire Mac app to look like this .swift script:

#!/path/to/swift

import Cocoa

// The rest of my entire Mac app.

Because we don't yet have binary stability, I guess I'd have to put the swift binary (which runs the above .swift script) and a bunch of .dylibs into the Mac .app bundle somehow.

Is this possible to do and if so, how?

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It is not. The first problem is that there is no value of "/path/to/swift" that will work everywhere.

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On Jun 20, 2017, at 7:34 AM, tuuranton--- via swift-users <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:

I want the entire code for my entire Mac app to look like this .swift script:

#!/path/to/swift

import Cocoa

// The rest of my entire Mac app.

Because we don't yet have binary stability, I guess I'd have to put the swift binary (which runs the above .swift script) and a bunch of .dylibs into the Mac .app bundle somehow.

Is this possible to do and if so, how?

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Greg Parker gparker@apple.com <mailto:gparker@apple.com> Runtime Wrangler

4

It is not. The first problem is that there is no> value of "/path/to/swift" that will work everywhere.

Makes sense, but I guess one day macOS will ship with swift in a standard location like /usr/bin/swift so that would no longer be a problem.

Out of curiosity, what are the some of the other problems?

5

It gets distributed as part of Xcode (which is free, but not preloaded on anything) or as a download from swift.org or GitHub now. Unless they port iOS's playgrounds app to macOS, I'm not sure what would motivate apple to change that in the future.

- Dave

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On Jun 22, 2017, at 02:55, tuuranton--- via swift-users <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:

> It is not. The first problem is that there is no
> value of "/path/to/swift" that will work everywhere.

Makes sense, but I guess one day macOS will ship with swift in a standard location like /usr/bin/swift so that would no longer be a problem.

6

Maybe just like python script

#!/usr/bin/env swift

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tuuranton--- via swift-users <swift-users@swift.org> 於 2017年6月22日 下午5:55 寫道：

> It is not. The first problem is that there is no
> value of "/path/to/swift" that will work everywhere.

Makes sense, but I guess one day macOS will ship with swift in a standard location like /usr/bin/swift so that would no longer be a problem.

Out of curiosity, what are the some of the other problems?

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