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Chandler Tayek
5,513 PointsCan I program swift on my windows machine through a third party program like parallels?
Like the title says can I use parallels to basically get mac for my windows machine in order to program in swift? Or do I have to buy a Mac?
2 Answers
Michael Liquori
8,131 PointsI am able to use Xcode by installing a Mac VM using VMWare on Windows 8.1. It's slow but it works, at least at the learning stage. I tried other VMs that didn't work so I recommend trying this one, it was pretty seamless.
Michael Liquori
8,131 PointsThanks for the tip Ken, as a total PC guy it was a great way to get used to the environment and keyboard shortcuts and see if I really wanted to pursue it or not before buying a Mac, but I borrowed an old Mac to continue learning on, the VM was slow and there are some bugs so I wouldn't want to do serious development on it anyway.
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherI'm right there with you, Michael. I have yet to cough up the money for a Mac Book, limits my development a bit, but I'll concentrate on other development areas.
Ken
Chandler Tayek
5,513 PointsChandler Tayek
5,513 PointsThanks!
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherKen Alger
Treehouse TeacherGentlemen;
As a warning on using Virtual Machines for Mac development, it does not make Apple happy and I have colleagues who have had their apps rejected from Apple because of it. Not saying that it isn't great for learning Swift, or iDevice development, but just be careful.
Ken