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Swift Tooling: Windows Edition


Productivity on every platform - a deep dive on the ways we're writing Swift code on Windows, and improving the developer experience along the way.

The Swift toolchain ships with LLDB, which implements Microsoft’s Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP), enabling seamless integration with VS Code. PDBs don’t reliably enable runtime inspection of Swift variables, but they provide enhanced debugging of code that interfaces with Windows system APIs. WinDBG is a general purpose debugger with decades of development behind it, and is particularly useful for debugging Swift programs which interact with Windows system libraries.

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