Is it something which is hard to do? I would love to work on it, but I need some tips how this should be done

What I understand for now is that we use syntect which uses Sublime text syntax definitions. Should we just take Sublime Text package for the Swift programming language, make it work for syntect and then add this to this repo?

No, this should not be hard! The steps are approximately as follows:

• find a good syntax definition (sublime or textmate) for the swift language, that has a permissive open source licence.
• add that syntax definition to this repo
• when that is merged, open a pr in the xi-editor repo that updates the syntect-resources submodule to include the new syntax definition
• update xi-mac to point to the new xi-editor
• write swift!

And: you should be able to test out the syntax by just putting it in xi-mac/xi-editor/syntect-resources and rebuilding xi-mac.

Thanks!

Ok then.. I did some research and it looks like Swift Sublime Text packages are outdated. I will refresh my knowledge once in a while in order to support Swift 😄

I found this, which has no license: https://github.com/GregoryBL/SwiftSyntax/blob/master/Swift.sublime-syntax

From the readme it looks like MIT, so that's fine. we'll want to copy the license into a file if we take it on.

Yes, sorry I was about to clarify that after reading the LICENSE section. I didn't see it before.

This will also be quite out of date (it's at least two versoins of swift behind?) and it doesn't have metadata, but could be an okay starting point.

We might be able to update it, but I don't know whether that would affect the licensing?

Nope, we're free to do whatever we want, we're just expected to include the original license text intact. :)

Ok, I'm making a PR as we speak...

Ok, there you go. If that gets merged, I can follow through with a PR on xi-editor, and hopefully xi-mac as well.

Going to close as it has been a while and I'm not sure if this is relevant anymore.