Skip is now free and open source

#1

Post by dayanruben » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 3:20 PM UTC

Skip is now free and open source
skip.dev

Re: Skip is now free and open source

#2

Post by gouthamve » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 4:55 PM UTC

https://github.com/skiptools/skip

This is cool, but there is no LICENSE file putting this in DONT USE territory.

This has a license: https://github.com/skiptools/skipstone but it vendors the other repo according to the readme? I am super confused about how this would work.

Re: Skip is now free and open source

#3

Post by marcprux » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 4:59 PM UTC

gouthamve wrote: post #2

https://github.com/skiptools/skip This is cool, but there is no LICENSE file putting this in DONT USE territory. This has a license: https://github.com/skiptools/skipstone but it vendors the other repo according to the readme? I am super confused about how this would work.

The Xcode build plugin in the /skip repo uses the binary created by /skipstone (which is the repository that was just opened).

Thanks for pointing out that the /skip repo itself doesn't have a license. We'll fix that asap!

Re: Skip is now free and open source

#4

Post by liuliu » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 5:35 PM UTC

I wish there are something for SwiftUI on Windows. I meant to support Windows for Draw Things, but the opportunity cost is too high without proper UI tooling.

Re: Skip is now free and open source

#5

Post by zahlman » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 5:59 PM UTC

gouthamve wrote: post #2

https://github.com/skiptools/skip This is cool, but there is no LICENSE file putting this in DONT USE territory. This has a license: https://github.com/skiptools/skipstone but it vendors the other repo according to the readme? I am super confused about how this would work.

LGPL3 has now been added: https://github.com/skiptools/skip/commit/7ad94680a801ca393fe...

Re: Skip is now free and open source

#6

Post by pxc » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 6:00 PM UTC

If I use Skip to make a cross-platform app, will TalkBack be able to read it to users as well as VoiceOver?

Re: Skip is now free and open source

#7

Post by ppeetteerr » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 6:01 PM UTC

This is amazing! Thank you for open sourcing the project. It must have been a hard decision.

Re: Skip is now free and open source

#8

Post by jstummbillig » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 6:01 PM UTC

"At least 32GB of memory is recommended for development with Skip."

Dear lord, what?

Re: Skip is now free and open source

#9

Post by dlcarrier » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 6:10 PM UTC

jstummbillig wrote: post #8

"At least 32GB of memory is recommended for development with Skip." Dear lord, what?

IDEs targeting mobile development saw the bloat in FPGA IDEs and said "we can beat that".

Re: Skip is now free and open source

#10

Post by marcprux » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 6:10 PM UTC

jstummbillig wrote: post #8

"At least 32GB of memory is recommended for development with Skip." Dear lord, what?

Well, you're running both the iOS development tools (Xcode, iOS Simulator), plus the Android development tools (Gradle, Android emulator, and maybe Android Studio too). These add up.

16GB might be possible, though.

(Skip itself doesn't take much memory. If you run it headlessly as a SwiftPM plugin, you wouldn't need nearly that much.)