Xcode playground gets stuck on 'Running playground' or 'Launching simulator' and won't run the code, what to do?

Question

Every time I create a new playground in order to test some code, Xcode gets stuck and won\'t run the code. It simply presents \'Running playground\' or \'Launching simulator

Answer 1

Ans. Switch to macOS platform

When you create a Playground, by default it select iOS platform and automatically imports UIKit. It's the UIKit which crashes and stuck all the time. If your (practice) code does not use UIKit then you can switch to MacOS platform. As major (not exact though) difference between iOS and macOS is in APPKit and UIKit.

In the upper right corner of your Xcode Playground, click on show/hide Utilities--> file inspector --> Playground Setting--> Platform--> macOS

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