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Will this arbitrarily break compatibility with some XCode version that ends up forcing me to buy a new Mac just to be able to build my code? (asking for a frien

by j1elo 4y ago

Will this arbitrarily break compatibility with some XCode version that ends up forcing me to buy a new Mac just to be able to build my code? (asking for a friend)

akmarinov 4y ago
Not if you have a Mac from the past decade
jshier 4y ago
That only happens with major OS releases. Or the inverse, where the version of Xcode requires the next major version of macOS. We should see that in March with Xcode 14.3 or 14.4.
- j1elo 4y ago
  That happened to me with a "minor" update of iOS, which upped the bar and required a new version of Xcode, but that version of Xcode required a newer version of MacOS, and that version of MacOS was not available for my MacBook. So quite a nice chain of requirements that ended up forcing a new computer purchase, for what essentially boils down to the purpose of compiling Swift source code. Absolutely no other of my technical or performance requirements were asking for a machine renewal.