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Swift Package Indexing
Author: Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt
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Join Dave and Sven, the creators of the Swift Package Index open-source project, as they talk about progress on the project and discuss a new set of community package recommendations every episode.
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Join us for our interview with Marc Prud'hommeaux of skip.tools as we talk about Swift on Android, the Swift on Android Working Group, and cross-platform app development. And, as usual, we highlight our package picks.Interview with Marc Prud’hommeauxAndroid Working GroupInitial community announcementOfficial announcementPorting Swift packages to AndroidSkip and Kotlin MultiplatformPackagesUncertain by Mattt Thompsonswift-complexity by Fumiya TanakaSQLCipher.swift by Micah MooreLottie by Airbnb
Join us as we talk about Swift packages names, explain some new details of the Swift Package Index' build system, and discuss an interesting paper about leveraging a compiler to find privacy bugs. And, as usual, we highlight our package picks.Apologies for the background white noise at the start of the episode on Dave's microphone. It clears up about 15 minutes in to the show.NewsParalegal via Joe GroffPackagesCadova by Tomas FranzénSwiftQC by Sheldon AristideEmailValidator by David MichaelSubprocess by Apple
Join us for more package ecosystem talk, covering the new Swift Ecosystem Steering group, extracting reusable packages from the CodeEdit codebase, and how Rust error messages have evolved over the years. Of course, we also have plenty of package picks for you all.NewsAnnouncing the Ecosystem Steering GroupEcosystem Steering GroupCodeEdit: Introducing New Packages: WelcomeWindow and AboutWindowWelcomeWindowAboutWindowEvolution of Rust compiler errorsvia MonkeydomPackagesswift-security by Dmitriy ZharovTranslateKit by Cihat GündüzTextDiffing by Simon Støvringyap by Finn VoorheesObjects2XLSX by Xu Yang
Join us to talk about our five year anniversary of launching the Swift Package Index, adding Wasm and Android support to our compatibility testing matrix, WWDC 2025, and a rather lengthy (but interesting!) discussion of LLM-based coding tools. There's also a couple of package picks, as always!NewsFive years of the Swift Package IndexAdding Wasm and Android compatibility testingOne Number to Rule Them All: Why I'd Love Apple's Unified OS VersioningCoded with Claude Code: CriticMarkupThe Future of Vibe Coding: Building with AI, Live and UnfilteredZed editorPackagespackage-swift-lsp by Vasiliy KattoufProbing by Kamil Strzelecki
Join us for another episode of Swift Package Indexing where we cover the status of Swift 6.1 compatibility and the latest "Ready for Swift 6" results, discuss xtool, and of course pick some packages to talk about! NewsReady for Swift 6xtool on the Swift forumsxtool packageThe Next Chapter in Swift Build TechnologiesPackagesRedline by Robb BöhnkeHarmonize by Lucas CavalcanteDangerswift-mocking by Gray Campbellvault-courier by Javier Cuesta
Join us for another episode where we cover our slightly unusual rollout of Swift 6.1 support on the Swift Package Index, the Swift Fundraising cooperative, the multiple fabulous projects written by Kashikawa Katsumi, and of course, give our regular package picks.NewsThe Swift Fundraising CooperativeKashikawa KatsumiSwiftRegex.comSwift AST ExplorerPackagesHasLazyServer by southkinswift-play-experimental by AppleTextReplacements by Daniel Saidiswift-snapshot-testing-macros by Adam Carterswift-snapshot-testing by Point-FreeSwiftTitleCase by Yilei Yang
Join us as we chat about enabling parallelising our tests with Swift Testing, what your plan should be for any CocoaPods projects you still work on, more thoughts on open-source funding based on a recently published paper, and of course the usual package picks!NewsMastodon Post: The Value of Open Source SoftwarePaper: The Value of Open Source SoftwareCocoaPods Trunk Read-only PlanPackagesCodable by Andrii ChernenkoThe future of serialisation & deserialisationAestheticText by Kyle BashourRTSanStandaloneSwift by Josip ĆavarTime to Get Real – Introducing RealtimeSanitizer for SwiftClang RealtimeSanitizerswift-file by Jihoon AhnRenderMeThis by AetherGlowGetter by Aether
Join us as we chat about the Swift team joining Bluesky and Mastodon, data race safety numbers on Swift Package Index Package pages, Swift on Raspberry Pi, and of course our usual package picks!NewsSwiftlang: Social media expansion to Mastodon and BlueskyBluesky accountMastodon accountLeverage by Matt MassicotteIssue: Ready for Swift 6 false positivesIssue: False positives reported in Sema.NumSwift6Errors via -stats-output-dirhttps://swifttoolkit.dev/posts/r-pi by Natan Rolnik, assisted by Jesse ZamoraPackagesAtRandom by Robb Böhnkesharing-grdb by Pointfreeswift-sharing by PointfreeGRDB by Gwendal RouévisualizeTouches by Robb Böhnkeamplify-ui-swift-liveness by aws-amplifySpices by Simon Støvring
Join us for our first episode in 2025 with news of a community Swift on Android working group, the announcement of swift-build at FOSDEM, a discussion of making open source funding easier, how to get feedback on Swift Evolution proposals from people outside the Swift forums, and of course our usual package picks!NewsSwift on Android Working GroupThe Next Chapter in Swift Build TechnologiesOpen Source Swift fundraisingswift.algora.ioPitch: Last expression as return valuePackagesZip by Tomas Franzénswift-zip-archive by Adam FowlerForked by Drew McCormackSkinSmoothingFilter by shimanumerix by Gavin Wiggins
Join us as we talk about the Python package ecosystem, the prospective vision to improve the approachability of data-race safety, and give our usual package recommendations.NewsConstraints are Good: Python's Metadata DilemmaProspective Vision: Improving the approachability of data-race safetyAnnouncement post on MastodonThe forum thread and Tim Condon’s commentPackagesSocial media post about LMDBSwift Package Index search for LMDBQuickLMDBRapidLMDBSwiftLMDBEmpireFuzi fork by DimensionDevFuzi by Ce ZhengOrb by Siddhant MehtaSoulverCore by Zac CohanQueue by Matt Massicotte
Join us as we talk about the current state of Swift, Swift 6 concurrency, Swift-Java interoperability, and hear our regular package recommendations.NewsNew sample: Tiny Swing program mixing Java and Swiftcelsius-converteriOS Dev Weekly Issue 685 on the current state of SwiftPackagesSwiftClaude by George LyonJSONPatch by Peter RingsetSingaporeKit by Jia Chenswift-glob by Tuist, forked from David BeckGestureButton by Daniel SaidiStarCraftKit by Marcus Ziadé
Join us as we talk about the Server-side Swift Conference, Swift formatting, and hear our regular package recommendations.NewsServer-Side Swift ConferenceSwift and Interoperability by Tony Parker and Ben CohenWhen to Make a Macro by Daniel SteinbergLeveraging structured concurrency in your applications by Franz BuschStop worrying about routes with OpenAPI Generator by Babeth VelgheSo You Think You Know Swift? by Nick LockwoodDave’s thoughts about Swift formattingChip8KitPackagesLocationRadiusPicker by Eman BasicRecap by Joe FabisevichTinyStorage by Christian Seligswift-async-operations by matsuji
Join us as we talk about The Server Side Swift meetup, the Server Side Swift conference, Wasm, new features in Swift Package Index, Hummingbird 2, Vapor 5, and hear our regular package recommendations.NewsSSWG Meetup #3SwiftWasmWasmKitServer Side Swift ConferenceWhy was there a lifesize printout of Dave at AltConf 2019?Contributions to Swift Package IndexAdd a "forked from" featureAdd "first_activity" as a search filter optionHummingbirdWhat’s new in Hummingbird 2VaporThe future of VaporSwift HTTP TypesPackagesswift-snowflake by Jaehong KangVersionator by Sam DeaneGameControllerKit by Wesley de Grootswift-export by Frank LefebvreChip8iEmulationCore by Danijel StracenskiSpectreKit by Patrik Svensson
Join us as we talk about the CocoaPods maintenance plans and Swift macro expansions in Visual Studio Code, as well as hear our regular package recommendations.NewsCocoaPods Support & Maintenance PlansExpansion of Swift Macros in Visual Studio CodeConfiguring Emacs for Swift DevelopmentConfiguring Neovim for Swift DevelopmentPackagesSVGPath by Nick LockwoodPaintCodeswift-cloud by Andrew BarbaPhraseKit by Mark BattistellaEditValueView by p-x9UserDefaultsEditor by RyuConfettiKit by Simon B. StøvringRecreating iMessage Confetti
Join us as we discuss the latest Ready for Swift 6 results, and how we represent them on the site. We also chat about Open Source Software funding, homomorphic encryption, and of course, we include our regular package recommendations.NewsIssue with Swift 6 error countsGeomys project announcementAcknowList by Vincent TourraineLicensePlist by Masayuki OnoPackagesEasing by Pavel Sharandaswift-homomorphic-encryption by AppleAnnouncing Swift Homomorphic EncryptionHomomorphic encryption in plain englishswift-argument-parser by Appleswiftmacro-cloaked-string by Lukas GergelKeyColor by Anton HeestandLightpack by Daniel Noskin
Join us as we talk about our build system move to an Orka cluster consisting of 8 Mac Studios, our ongoing "Ready for Swift 6" project, to get an update on documentation coverage across the package ecosystem, and to hear our regular package recommendations. NewsPlotting a Path to a Package Ecosystem without Data Race ErrorsSwitching to ephemeral macOS build runnersMacStadium FOSS programPackagesswift-testing-revolutionary by Kohki MikiSoto by Adam Fowler and the release blog postSwiftSessions by Alessio RubiciniTabular by António Pedro MarquesCoreXLSX by Max Desiatov
This week we talk about WWDC, our Ready for Swift 6 project that tracks data race safety errors across the whole package ecosystem, the Swift 6 migration guide, and more. Of course, we also make our regular package recommendations!NewsSwift 6 Migration GuideMatt Massicotte’s Swift 6 blog seriesPackagesBlurHashViews by Dale Pricehttps://blurha.shDeclarativeTextKit by Christian Tietzeswiftly by Patrick FreedHummingbird by Adam FowlerSwift Server Side Meetup #2ContrastKit by Mark Battistella
This week we follow up on Swift 6 news, talk about Swift in unusual places, performance benchmarks, give a sneak peek at our new Mac build infrastructure, and of course make package recommendations.NewsSE-0435 Swift Language Version Per TargetSwift on Flipper Zero — A Proof of Concept by Samar SunkariaYou can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrociousSwift Tooling: Windows Editionswift-inspectJuice Sucking Servers by Axel Roest‘Standard’ vapor website drops 1.5% of requests, even at concurrency of 100! on the Swift ForumsPackagesswift-chess-neo by Navan Chauhan Sage by Nikolai Vazquezswift-security by Dmitriy Zharovswift-glob by David BeckAnyCodingKey by Rob Napier
This week we had the opportunity to talk to Holly Borla who manages the Swift Compiler Team at Apple. We chat about upcoming Swift 6 changes and why they're a big deal, but also why you shouldn’t worry too much. Of course, all three of us pick packages, too!Interview with HollySE-0414: Region isolation SE-0431: Dynamically isolated function typesPackagesGRDB by Gwendal RouéGwendal's forum thread about adding Sendable annotationsPack by Matt CoxGeoURI by Jeff JohnstonConcurrencyRecipes by Matt Massicottegenerative-ai-swift by GoogleFit by Oleh Korchytskyi
Join us for another episode as Dave and Sven talk open-source security vulnerabilities and how all package ecosystems are at risk, why it won't be possible to give meaningful "package size" stats on package pages, yet more talk of interfacing with Swift from other languages, and a one-question quiz! Plus package recommendations, of course!Follow upDead code stripping / Link time optimisationhttps://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-support-lto-for-swift/67379https://developer.apple.com/wwdc22/110362NewsThe Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor MastermindCalling Haskell from Swift by Rodrigo MesquitaProposal Monitor by Victor MartinsPackageswhisperkit by Zach NagengastMacWhisper by Jordi BruinAsync-Channels by Brian FloerschPerformance discussion on the Swift Forumsswift-async-algorithms by AppleKeyCodes by Matt MassicotteSFSafeSymbols by Frederick PietschmannIgnite by Paul HudsonPublish and Plot by John Sundell