• GSoC 2025 Showcase: Swiftly support in VS Code Another successful year of Swift participation in Google Summer of Code recently came to an end, and we’d like to shine some light on the projects and work accomplished! • Summer of Code is an annual program, organized by Google, which provides hands-on experience for newcomers contributing to open source projects. • In this series of four blog posts, we’ll highlight each of the Summer of Code contributors and their projects. • You can navigate between the posts using these convenient links: - Bringing Swiftly support to VS Code (this post) - Extending Swift-Java Interoperability - Improved code completion for Swift - Improved console output for Swift Testing Each GSoC contributor has shared a writeup about their project and experience in the program on the forums. • The first project we’re featuring on the blog brought Swiftly support to Visual Studio Code, contributed by Priyambada Roul. • To learn more, you can read the full post on the Swift forums.
Article Summaries:
- Google Summer of Code 2025 concluded with a new feature for Swift developers: Swiftly, the Swift toolchain manager, has been integrated into the Visual Studio Code Swift extension. The update lets users view and switch Swift versions from the status bar, install new toolchains directly within VS Code, and see real‑time progress. It also adds macOS support, automatic detection of .swift‑version files, and machine‑readable JSON output from Swiftly for improved error reporting. The integration, developed by GSoC student Priyambada Roul under mentors Chris McGee and Matthew Bastien, is already available in the latest VS Code extension release.
Sources: