Swift Playgrounds looks great but I'm surprised no one has mentioned the frustration that Apple is shipping something on iPad that other developers have been banned from making since iPad shipped From the Swift Playground website: > Send your code to a friend’s iPad using Mail, Messages, or AirDrop No other apps are allowed to do this because of the iOS Terms of Service restrictions
Codea has been around for a few years now. It lets you code iPad apps on the iPad using Lua. You can even export the project to Xcode so you can eventually deploy your creations to the App Store. And this is certainly not the only iOS-based coding environment. It looks like Apple has knowingly made an exception for this use case because it's not the type of thing they had set out to prevent with their rules around lo…
You can see this is how they handled it
https://bitbucket.org/TwoLivesLeft/core/wiki/CopyingCode
Swift Playground doesn't seem to have that limit which arguably makes Swift Playground a whole lot better and arguably anti-competitive