Yep. Unlike other areas of life, like building construction for example, computer programming changes both the products and the tools constantly. If we were to take a person from the Bronze Age and bring them to a modern construction site, they would have no problem figuring out how to use a hammer even though the products built in construction have evolved enormously over the past several centuries. Bring someone that learned how to use HTML in 1990 to Swift Code today, on the other hand, and they'd be completely lost. There are no absolute standards to work with in this virtual world. Everything can be adapted to the individual, and there are 7.5 Billion individuals in the world each trying to adapt the world to their own view. Basically, we just have to find the most up to date stuff and fill in the gaps with our imagination. If you're trying to make new things, you should be good at using your imagination anyway.

Finally found the answer. As usual, looking forever results in no change but the instant I ask about it I find the solution almost immediately. For anyone having the same problem: It is under the Window Menu 5th Item from the very bottom: WELCOME TO XCODE. There is also a keyboard shortcut associated with it, SHIFT+CMND+1 The culprit here is a tiny check box at the bottom of the window: SHOW THIS WINDOW WHEN XCODE LAUNCHES Somehow that had become unchecked the last time I ran the program.

No, Macrosoft's (you all know that's what Mac really stands for) Business Practices are more predatory than those of a certain neighbor a couple of states to their north. You must buy a $4000-$7000 device that you would never use for anything else in order to build silly games for a tablet. If you would like to use a good computer to make actual programs rather than just apps, give up. It cannot be done. There are a lot of sites with various programs and extensions claiming to do what you're looking for, several links are even in this topic, but they are all failures. Every last one of them has been abandoned and many may cause harm to your computer. In the very least they will waste space on your hard drive.

It is not possible to do this. I have been looking for the past week and have found nothing. Visual Basic allegedly allows users to program in Swift, and there is an option when creating a new project to make it for iOS Devices....but the program does not understand any of the terms used in Swift Programming. It doesn't even know what variables or constants are. I downloaded XCode but it comes in a .xip format which Windows, Google, Duck Duck Go, Bing, and all other search engines & programs think is a ZIP file. I went to download a virtual machine to run MacOS on Windows, but Virtual Box says that VM Mode is no longer supported as of Version 6.1, which basically renders that whole program useless. The literal point of having it is to be a VM. Basically, you need to buy a $1,000 to $2,000 brand new MacBook Pro in order to have any hope of ever making even the most basic commands in Swift. The mere fact it has been four years since the original post and people are still looking proves you are completely screwed when trying to do this. Just don't.