Swift language support

It would be nice to have things like autocomplete and having swift preinstalled on gitpod

[svenefftinge]

There's a bit more that needs to be done, e.g. install swift.
Would be great if someone could write a guide for the documentation.

This seems to be a good starting point: https://github.com/PerfectlySoft/PerfectDocs/blob/master/guide/gettingStarted.md

[jankeromnes]

To clarify, what's required here is:

• Write a Dockerfile based on FROM gitpod/workspace-full that installs swift, to produce a base image for Gitpod workspaces

• Find good VS Code extension(s) for Swift, and install them in Gitpod

Yea

[JesterOrNot]

Hey, can I help make the Dockerfile?

[jankeromnes]

@JesterOrNot Yes please! That would be awesome. 💯

I think the first step would be to set up a demo Swift project, with a .gitpod.yml that points to a Dockerfile installing Swift, and that also installs the appropriate VS Code extension(s).

I'm happy to help if you have any questions. 😄

[JesterOrNot]

Here is the repo so that you can check on it and stuff
https://github.com/JesterOrNot/Gitpod-Swift

[jankeromnes]

Thanks for setting up a repo, @JesterOrNot! 😄

I went ahead and ran gp init and also installed Swift in the Dockerfile: JesterOrNot/Gitpod-Swift#1

[JesterOrNot]

Nice! Now I'll get the stuff for the lang server together if you look in sources.txt I have some extensions that I found

[JesterOrNot]

@jankeromnes alright, I just got an error Activating extension Maintained Swift Development Environment failed: Cannot read property 'replace' of undefined. any ideas? you can reproduce it by opening the repo
EDIT: Nevermind I got it! Take a look at the repository.

[jankeromnes]

@JesterOrNot So cool! Many thanks for the great work on this. 🙏 Is there any good Swift sample project I can use to test the language support?

[JesterOrNot]

https://github.com/groue/GRDB.swift seems pretty cool!

[JesterOrNot]

Were you able to test the lang server?

[svenefftinge]

I tried https://github.com/svenefftinge/Kitura-Sample but there is an issues with the vscode extension. eclipse-theia/theia#6329