[seankit]

The Swift language team has recently open sourced swift-build, and the community's assumption is that it was done in order to eventually move everything away from xcodebuild to swift-build, which would let you build an app from swift packages and fully break from Xcode: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-build

[tough]

yep can confirm swift build works, at least i was able to build a MacOS app and avoid Xcode at all costs thanks to it phew

[singularity2001]

yep Swift build Works magnificently but only for Mac so far