# Meet Plain Swift

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/meet-plain-swift/68898>\
**Category:** Community Showcase\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [December 8, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/meet-plain-swift/68898 "2023-12-08T23:01:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![dima\_kozhinov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/258eb7/32.png) [@dima\_kozhinov](https://forums.swift.org/u/dima_kozhinov)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/meet-plain-swift/68898/8 "2023-12-16T18:02:02Z")

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> [@sspringer](#):
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> The established project forms not specific to Apple‘s platforms are SPM and cmake, an IDE that wants to be more than a tool for just trying out the programming language should respect that and at least allow the use of SPM projects

Plain Swift _is_ an easy-to-use build system. You need a .dll? You have it. [Not the case with SPM](https://forums.swift.org/t/swiftpm-does-not-create-a-dll-file/69023).

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