Remember last summer: duringWWDC 24, Apple officials revealed Swift assist with insurance. A programming assistant integrated into XCODE 16, capable of transforming your textual instructions into perfect functional lines of code. ""Later in the yearWe were promised then. The calendar has turned, 2024 ended,Here we are well advanced in 2025, and still nothing.
The mystery thickens when we see that Apple has never proposed Swift Assist in a beta version, unlike its other flagship service,Apple Intelligence. No press release came to announce a possible postponement or - worse still - a pure and simple cancellation. Michael Tsai, wise observer of the Apple ecosystem, even notes that the recent outing of Xcode 16.3 Beta 2 makes the total skip on Swift Assist in his version notes.
Swift Assist: The almost perfect programming co -pilot
Do not confuse: Swift Assisthas nothing to do with the new predictive completion system of Xcode 16which works locally on your Mac. During his presentation "Platforms State of the Union", Apple described a much more ambitious tool, based on"A wider and more powerful model hosted in the cloud».
The vision was attractive: a real development companion answering technical questions, facilitating the exploration of new APIs and keeping an knowledge always up to date with the latest SDKs and Swift features. Apple had even taken care to reassure confidentiality, claiming that the code would never be preserved on its serversnor used to train other models of artificial intelligence. Unlike a certainChatgpt, now compatible with XCODE.
«Here we are in a new era where our tools will become incredibly intelligent. It is an exciting period to develop on Apple platforms»,proclaimed the business with enthusiasm.
Developers are impatient
The initial enthusiasm has given way to an expectation that is dragged. Developer forums are now overflowing with messages where impatience mixes with incomprehension. How can a business with such colossal resources announce with such a functionality with so much componentwhich seems to have been lost in the limbo of internal development?
«Incredible that they planted so much on AI. It's going to be funny to see if they manage to straighten the bar with IA improvements to WWDC»Gently laughs at a certain Coolpop52onThe Subreddit R/Apple.
Faced with this prolonged absence, two hypotheses are possible: either Apple meets technical obstaclesmuch more complex than anticipated, either the firm has discreetlyPut the project in break. In both cases, the lack of communication does notthat eating frustrationof the Apple developer community waiting for this innovation as the MessiahTo improve their productivity.
- Announced with enthusiasm during the WWDC 24, Swift Assist has still not seen the light of day in 2025, without any official explanation from Apple.
- Unlike other company AI services, it has never been offered in a beta version, and the recent updates of Xcode do not even mention it.
- The developers, initially impatient, now express their frustration in the face of Apple's silence and the uncertainties surrounding the future of this tool.
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