PluginStatsSwift Playgrounds installs statistics
By Pieter Jongsma · VS Code Marketplace · Debuggers
Allows opening and running of Swift playground bundles.
Swift Playgrounds has 136,223 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.
It ranks #1964 of 2,500 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.
PluginStats has 3 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 18, 2026.
About Swift Playgrounds
Swift Playgrounds extension for Visual Studio Code
Swift Playgrounds in Xcode are a great tool to learn Swift. Swift has been available on Linux for some time now, but anything similar to a Playground doesn't exist. This project is an attempt to bring playgrounds to VSCode such that Linux users can also enjoy them. Or MacOS users that really like VSCode of course.
Experimental
The current version is very experimental with only a couple of functions implemented (notably runtime variable inspection).
Call for examples
The aim is to have Playground functionality as close to Xcode's as possible. There does not seem to be an overview of what this functionality is, making this hard to accomplish. What really helps is examples of Playgrounds that behave differently in Xcode and VSCode (using this extension). If you have such an example, please throw it in an issue and I will try to fix the differences. Much appreciated!
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
- playground
- Swift Playground
- swift-playground
Where Swift Playgrounds sits in the listing
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Charts
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Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
Ranking history
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Recent observations
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Data source
Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.
Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pieterjongsma.swift-playgrounds. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 18, 2026. See the methodology.