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

In my case the problem was user-induced. I had the assistant editor displayed, but the live view wasn't selected. Make sure it looks like this:

And not like this: