Swift Package Indexing

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50: It has a learning curve like a brick wall

2024-10-1735:14

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

49: 64 bytes of guaranteed uniqueness

2024-09-3042:19

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

48: It’s not just CGPaths all the way down?

2024-08-2940:52

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

47: There are no open-source license police

2024-08-0844:24

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

46: A concept born and explored in recent decades

2024-07-1149:13

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

45: Lies, damned lies, and statistics

2024-06-2033:34

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

44: Does Swift run on gut bacteria yet?

2024-05-2342:31

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

43: Now I’m worried our metrics aren’t correct! with special guest Holly Borla

2024-04-2501:06:11

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

42: We need a “No one expects the Spanish inquisition“ sound effect

2024-04-1149:31

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

41: Breaking our “skipping episodes” streak

2024-03-2153:41

This week Dave and Sven break their streak of skipping recording to find Swift in exciting new places, like on ARM Windows and the Playdate, and learn new tricks like interoperating with C#. And as usual, there are package recommendations, with a good sprinkling of descents into various rabbit holes. NewsCombining Swift and C# on Windows with SwiftToCLRSwift on ARM Windows 11Swift Tooling: Windows EditionSwift on the PlaydatePanic PodcastPackagesThreadcrumb by Alexander CohenFlyingFox by Simon WhittyExpectToEventuallyEqual by Jon Reidswift-package-info by Felipe Marino

40: This downtime was a joint effort

2024-01-2540:53

This week, Dave and Sven take a look at the Flutter ecosystem, discuss Dave's blogging system rewrite, review their collaboration on a production crash, and, as usual, highlight some community packages.NewsProgress of the Flutter and Dart Package Ecosystem by Ander DoboPackagesVortex by Paul HudsonLanguageDetector by Ali Sheikhizadeh and Hadi SharghiGraceLanguage by Kevin MullinsVersionedCodable by Jonathan Rothwell

39: Stress testing dependency management

2024-01-1149:19

It's 2024, and Dave and Sven are back to talk plans for the Swift Package Index development over the coming year. They also talk about a light-hearted but also accidentally disastrous recent event in the npm package ecosystem, plans around how the Swift Package Index will approach Swift 6 support, and of course more package recommendations! NewsWhen "Everything" Becomes Too Much by Feross AboukhadijehPackagesswift-gopher by Navan ChauhanThe Web Before the WebWikipedia: Gopher (protocol)package-benchmark by Joakim HassilaOn percentiles: Wikipedia: Seven-number summaryGil Tene: Dispelling standard deviationPlusNightMode by Daniel Lyonswebsocket-actor-system by Stuart A. Malone

38: This is the least researched podcast in the history of podcasting

2023-12-0742:51

Inspired by a recent YouTube comment left on the previous episode, Dave and Sven talk about cross-platform Swift development with Visual Studio Code, Windows and Wasm compatibility, and about how Dave should have answered a question about adding a package into the Swift Package Index!NewsSwift Extension for Visual Studio Code introduction blog postSwift Extension marketplace pageGetting Started with Swift on AndroidMore Than Just Code podcast episode with DavePackagesModel3DView by FreekPow by Robb BöhnkeGestures by Mikhail VospennikovScintillaLib by danielleNSAttributedStringBuilder by Jasmin Eilers RichString by Stefan van den Oord NSAttributedStringBuilder by Ethan HuangSwiftUICoreImage by Dan Wood

37: With praise, you can include me, but any blame goes to Dave

2023-11-1650:13

Dave and Sven talk about the work that Cyndi Chin shipped as part of this year’s Swift Mentorship Program, and then dive into the details of some of the metrics, and answer a couple of listener questions about the feature. Plus six package recommendations, as always!News Revealing and explaining package scores by Cindy ChinThe Swift Mentorship Program Packages DirectJSON by Mertol Kasanan SwiftSummarize by Stef KorsSKSummary MemberwiseInit by Galen O’Hanlon typhoon by Nikita Vasilev swift-zpl by scchn ObfuscateMacro by p-x9

36: Even though the bug is fixed, it's not over!

2023-10-2643:42

Join us for talk of bugs and how we've either fixed or worked around them, why creating sustainable developer tools is so hard, and the story of which indie Mac app made Dave buy his first app!NewsBreadcrumbs by Marin TodorovPackagesGrape by Zhen LiFirefly by Taylor LinemanSwift-ISO8601-DurationParser by Leon Hoppeautomerge-swift by Joe HeckAutomerge for Swift blog post

35: It’s like a broccoli-eating competition. You can cheat by eating more broccoli, but you just end up more healthy

2023-10-0543:43

This week, we discuss importing ALL the packages, Swift 5.9, the Swift mentorship programme and package scores. Plus, of course, package recommendations!NewsScoring algorithmPackages SwiftGodot by Miguel de Icaza Documentation and tutorial SwiftGodotBinary swift-sdk-generator by Apple ZipPinch by Alexey Bukhtin swift-testing by Appleswift-testing Vision Document SwiftEmailValidator by Dave Poirier

34: Here are some packages. They may do interesting things

2023-09-2145:24

What even is a recommendation? Join Dave and Sven as they talk about the tricky business of recommending, endorsing, or showcasing packages before diving into a review of dependencies in other package ecosystems, and how the Swift package ecosystem compares. Then we showcase some packages, as usual!NewsWorrying about the NPM ecosystemand Not Worrying Much About CratesPackagesswift-macro-testing by PointfreeA new tool for testing macros in Swiftswift-snapshot-testing by PointfreeCloudKitSyncMonitor by Grant GrueningerLighter by Helge HeßPerformance Test Suite

33: We had some success, but it never saw the light of day

2023-08-3139:42

Join us as we talk about the disastrous week we had last week, where we had system failures, failed podcast recordings, and lumbago problems! We also talk about the upcoming Swift.org Package page and how we will curate the packages that get featured in the Community Showcase section. Plus, of course, community package recommendations.NewsStaging site for the Swift.org Packages pageand the associated pull requestPackagesxcbeautify by TuistSwiftUI-Shimmer by Vikram KriplaneySwiftPrompt by Michael O’BrianSF2Lib by Brad HowesSwiftAsyncAssert by angu softwareBezelKit by Mark Battistella

32: Which of your dependencies are load-bearing?

2023-08-1048:30

Do we understand how to add a package dependency after three years of creating the package index? No, we do not! We also discuss adding macro targets to Package pages, GitHub’s CodeQL analysis for Swift, and automating updating our package dependencies. Of course, we have six new package recommendations too!Follow up"Use this Package" showing an incorrect package name/identity – Issue 2451 News Tim Condon’s CodeQL post on the Swift Forums Marco Eidinger's GitHub action Swift Package Dependencies Checker Dependency details page – Issue 1321 Packages DataKit by Paul Kraft SwiftWhisper by Aaron Taylor CleverBird by B.T. Franklin Stores by Omar Albeik The Composable Architecture by Pointfree SwiftNRC by Joe Hinkle

31: Recommended by the Ministry of "How hard can it be?"

2023-07-2742:22

News Improved "Use this Package" button Pull Request Swift.org Packages page integration previewand the associated Pull Request Packages ColorToolbox by Ramon Torres FileMonitor by Kris Simon aka Peter Shaw Rearrange by ChimeHQ swift-concurrency-extras by Point-Freeand the “Reliably testing code” forum post SwiftUI-VPSwitchToggle by Vanson Leung TLDExtractSwift by Marco Eidingerand the Public Suffix List

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