A Swift macro plugin that expands Strings into ASCII Cows, right at compile time

MacroCows

400+ ASCII ?s

What is it? A Swift 5.9 compiler plugin that provides the #? Swift macro. It replaces the cow mentioned in the macro w/ one of the ASCII cows provided by the Swift cows package.

Usage:

let compilerCow = #?("compiler")
print(compilerCow)

If no cow matching the string is available, Xcode will produce an error:

Requires: Xcode 15beta+.

Related

• Apps:
  • CodeCows for macOS, includes a cows service and Xcode editor extension
  • ASCII Cows for iOS, includes a cows message app extension
• Swift cows package
• Swift Macros:
  • Intro to Swift macros
  • WWDC 2023: Expand on Swift macros
• Original:
  • cows – Node.js cows, the original
  • vaca – Get a random ASCII cow ?
  • cows-docker – ASCII cows on Docker

License

MIT © Sindre Sorhus Noze.io port: MIT © ZeeZide GmbH

Who

Macro is brought to you by ZeeZide. We like feedback, GitHub stars, cool contract work, presumably any form of praise you can think of.

GitHub

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