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How great are the IDEs over there for Swift? A quick search indicates jetbrains just shut down theirs, apple.com/swift/ really screams "this is apple stuff" and swift.org/getting-started/ seems like they use VS2019 to build on windows, but nothing about use as IDE. There is a VS Code extension with 80k installs, though.

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Xcode has its flaws but mostly it's pretty great to work in. With it available for the vast majority of current Swift programmers, it's a hard market to break into.

Xcode is slow and requires a huge amount of disk space (50gb free space just to install it). Also you can check reviews in AppStore. Current rating is 3.2.

Sounds like a great market opportunity then!

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