<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 13, 2016, at 2:05 PM, alex via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">I’m a Swift newbie, going through the Swift books (2.1 and 2.2). I’m a bit confused and I’d appreciate your help with setting up a good environment.</div><div style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">1. I have Xcode 7.2.1 installed. This seems to correspond to Swift 2.1.1 which I assume is the stable version.</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Then that’s all you need. If you’re learning the language, you definitely don’t want to be on the bleeding edge; it’ll get in the way.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m sure the vast majority of developers using Swift are working with the released version in Xcode. And it’s not stopping them from getting things done.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(BTW, the latest Xcode 7.3 beta apparently has Swift 2.2, or so I’ve heard. I haven’t checked.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Jens</div></body></html>