> On Sep 13, 2016, at 5:34 PM, Shyamal Chandra via swift-users
> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
>
> Here is a forum question that I posted a while back. The latest post says to
> file a bug under the bug report. I have had mixed success with the bug
> reporter tool from Apple; most of the time, they ask for the system
> diagnostics and then, tell you to update your version. Sometimes, they just
> close the issue and nothing happens.
Apple’s bug-reporting process is not the greatest, I agree. Most of that is a
side effect of how secretive and opaque Apple is: you can’t see bugs anyone
else has filed, and once you file a bug you can’t see what’s going on
internally, and if it gets marked as a dup you can’t see the progress of the
bug it was duped against.
Fortunately Swift is now open source and has its own more open bug tracker at
bugs.swift.org.
> I was doing something "simple" in Playgrounds and my version of Playgrounds
> doesn't function properly because it is emitting an error when I write
> bug-free code. Why is Playgrounds so flaky?
Now you’re talking about Xcode, not about Swift itself. Everyone has a
love/hate relationship with Xcode (even inside Apple; I used to work there.)
It’s a hugely complex app with a thousand competing demands it has to fulfill.
Some parts of it suck. Generally they get better over time. The Swift support —
and playgrounds in particular — still seem pretty rough. I still spend most of
my time with Obj-C and C++, and whenever I do Swift development it feels like
I’m using a different, much less stable IDE! I imagine it still needs more time
to mature.
I don’t know if this mailing list is the best place to discuss Xcode issues,
even ones related to Swift. Apple has an xcode-users mailing list at
http://lists.apple.com . It’s a good quality list that I’ve been on for years.
—Jens
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