Swift Playgrounds for Mac is Here!

I unabashedly love Apple’s education initiatives. It’s a type of accessibility. Of making technology more available and approachable to more and more people. And, yeah, sure, Apple will sell you an iPad for 300 bucks or an iPhone for 700 or a MacBook for 1100, or whatever, but Apple also makes tons of educational content available for free to people and schools, and training through curriculum and at Apple Retail Stores, all for everyone and all for free. As in, you don’t have to spend a dime on it.

It’s what I mean when I talk about the value of something being fundamentally different from the cost. It’s something that I think gets lost in the vast majority of coverage. And it’s why I’m incredibly grateful you all help me make videos like these to try and do something about it.

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[whatsupdate]

BTW Rene I want to thank you for publishing high quality tech content to your channel. Your enthusiasm for this stuff is motivating and your obvious knowledge and insight are appreciated.

[Khalmoon]

Wow, i refreshed the page and it's here! Nice!

[casperes]

What I think? I think that for me, the Playgrounds feature already in Xcode suits my needs for quickly playing with code ideas well enough, but it's a welcome addition. I mostly code Java these days anyway, but I'm curious to see where Playgrounds goes and whether it'll increase more in the field of quick testing for existing developers, or stay focused as an educational tool. I'd like the former for quick tests on my iPad to become nicer to work with, especially code completion is annoyingly lacking in many ways I find, but the latter is probably better overall.

[AnthonyNovellird]

Consistently the most trustworthy and informed voice in the Mac community! Thanks for all you do Rene!

[thecrazy]

I want to take a moment and pause my life to applaud this great channel hosted by our beloved Rene Ritchie. Sir, you are just straightforward, informative, unbiased, cool and charismatic. Keep doing great stuff as usual. Thanks!

[erikreider]

Great video! What do you think about the AMD APU codenames found in Mac OS?

[aaronmueller]

Question Rene, isn’t it the case that this only works on Catalina? Haven’t upgraded yet but I like that I don’t have to have an iPad to play in the playground. As always, greatly informative and enjoy your videos.

[razorflower]

Anyone else having problems with heavy processor load when running Playgrounds? I run on a MacBook Air 2015 1, 6 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 with 8Gb ram.
Proceccor usage goes up to 94% and fan is going mental!

[w.e.]

Epic Wayne
But it hardly works on the Mac tho. The fans max out and it heats up like crazy, to the point where it’s almost impractical to use

[JasperEdwinAsir]

This video should have millions of views

[dbelieve]

Anyone knows how to pull down the else if statement option? I’m having a hard time finding it.

[DustyAf]

lol do you have a link to that watermelon commercial?

[socialmediamarketingservic]

Hi, I would like to know how it is possible to insert an audio file with swift playground and start it when you click on a start button

[chelecool]

when I download the app on Mac, It's said that has many languages, but I want to know How yo change the language only in the app.

[leojoey]

ag finally!!! thank you for letting us know !!

[DominicGo]

Teaching students how to program in swift = future iOS developers.

[mindright]

Nice to see all the educational programming and learning opportunities Apple is making available to students, teachers and anyone desiring to dip their toes into the world of coding on the Apple platform. Great job!

[philipplietzau]

Is it only me or does the App is so badly written that my 2018 MacBook Pro with the i5 constantly hits 99 degrees Celsius or above and the fans start to get really loud. Apart from that a very good idea to bring it to the Mac :)

[ericdraven]

It's still not optimized for macOS.

[stergiosbampakis]

I don’t really like the way catalyst goes. Those apps totally don’t feel and look like Mac apps. Especially those buttons.