Will JB ever put Swift syntax highlighting in Inte...

# multiplatform

[adjpd]

Will JB ever put Swift syntax highlighting in IntelliJ? I often do small edits to the SwiftUI code from IntelliJ. Syntax highlighting would make it more pleasant.

[Landry Norris]

I'd imagine they want you to buy an appcode license for swift support

[Big Chungus]

Or just make it available to ij ultimate and get the same money

[Big Chungus]

Nobody is going to buy appcode for occasional edits only when you can just live with xcode as bad as it might be.

[darkmoon_uk]

I guess I'm nobody then 🤷‍♂️

[Big Chungus]

How many hours a month do you spend on swift?

[darkmoon_uk]

Most months zero, but I'm probably in that impossibly narrow bracket of users who maintains a paid license out of ideological desire for an Xcode alternative.

[christophsturm]

some people probably have it as part of the all products pack.

[Landry Norris]

I get it as a college student. It’s not the best IDE I’ve used, but it seems to still be getting better.

[Landry Norris]

I think the full gradle plugin for Android/iOS is really interesting, and I can’t wait to see where that goes.

[adjpd]

I'm not going to have three editors--Android Studio, AppCode and Xcode--on my machine since I do not have an infinite number of processors and RAM modules. It chugs along painfully enough with just Xcode and Android Studio open.

[Landry Norris]

Why would you need xcode and appcode?

[adjpd]

I suspect I'd need it anyway for various things that JB haven't integrated into AppCode yet

[Landry Norris]

I'd imagine at some point, appcode will at least get parity with IJ, which would at least make AS redundant, but I'm not 100% convinced appcode is ready for mainstream yet. Can't wait to see where it goes in the future, though.