--- title: Expanding Swift's IDE Support | daily.dev description: The official Swift extension is now available on the Open VSX Registry, enabling Swift development in a wider range of VS Code-compatible editors including... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/expanding-swift-s-ide-support-o8vjrja4x twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Expanding Swift's IDE Support | daily.dev og:description: The official Swift extension is now available on the Open VSX Registry, enabling Swift development in a wider range of VS Code-compatible editors including... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/expanding-swift-s-ide-support-o8vjrja4x og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/o8VJRja4x.png og:image:alt: Expanding Swift's IDE Support og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Expanding Swift's IDE Support **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The official Swift extension is now available on the Open VSX Registry, enabling Swift development in a wider range of VS Code-compatible editors including Cursor, VSCodium, AWS's Kiro, and Google's Antigravity. The extension provides code completion, refactoring, debugging, a test explorer, and DocC support for Swift Package Manager projects across macOS, Linux, and Windows. Agentic IDEs like Cursor can automatically install Swift with no manual download required. A dedicated guide for setting up Cursor for Swift development is also available. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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