What's new in Xcode 7

Unexpected: "Xcode 7 and Swift now make it easier for everyone to build apps and run them directly on their Apple devices. Simply sign in with your Apple ID, and turn your idea into an app that you can touch on your iPad, iPhone, or Apple Watch. Download Xcode 7 beta and try it yourself today. Program membership is not required."

&quot;Advanced error handling model using try &#x2F; catch &#x2F; throw that feels natural in Swift.&quot;<p>yeah try&#x2F;catch is very advanced.

&quot;Xcode 7 has a ENABLE_BITCODE option to embed bitcode in apps, app extensions, and frameworks. The option is turned on by default for iOS and is mandatory for watchOS projects submitted to the store.<p>When bitcode is enabled for a target, all the objects, static libraries and user frameworks used when linking that target must contain bitcode. Otherwise, an error or a warning will be issued by the linker. (Note: missing bitcode is currently a warning for iOS, but it will become an error in an upcoming beta release of Xcode 7.) ENABLE_BITCODE should be consistently turned on for all the targets. If you use a library or framework provided by a third party, please contact the vendor for an updated version which contains bitcode.&quot;<p>Dear God, do we need to wait for all libs to update? :S

Not even a mention of refactoring tools for Swift? Right now you can&#x27;t even do a Rename. This was one of the biggest reasons I bought Appcode, actually. And I&#x27;m still waiting for either IDE to implement Extract Method.<p>It boggles my mind how little I hear people complain about this. Aren&#x27;t these basic tools by now?

Am I the only one excited about nil flags and generics support in Objective-C? I think it&#x27;s really nice to have an NSArray full of MyObjects that is type checked compile time.

Every year the new XCode comes, and I&#x27;m less excited about new features and more worried about how many more Macs will I have to buy. Last update on XCode 6 made it impossible for some 2012 models to run it.<p>This update is almost surely for Yosemite and above. The cost of developing on Apple platform is crazy these days. I miss the days when they could mock Microsoft for having an expensive Visual Studio. Now they make you buy a new Mac per developer every 2 years.

&gt; A migrator in Xcode 7 to convert your existing your existing Swift code to use the new Swift 2.0 features and syntax.<p>woops, repetition !

&gt; Swift is a successor to both the C and Objective-C languages.<p>This says it all, regarding what the future for Objective-C looks like.

I&#x27;m really excited about code coverage, and the built-in user interface testing support. That&#x27;s amazing. We currently write our acceptance tests with KIF, but this sounds so much better. Looking forward to playing with the automated test recording.

Stack Views is really cool! I don&#x27;t need the full power and complexity of AutoLayout.

Can I use it on my old mac mini 2011 with 2gb ram and Mavericks?<p>I really want to start using Swift. And no, can&#x27;t upgrade.

I wonder if it&#x27;s possible to do ad-hoc testing on Xcode 7 without joining the developer program?

It would be interesting to see, how Apple manages to stop people from Side loading apps.

Does anyone know if Xcode 7 will include LLVM OpenMP support?