Swift Package Indexing

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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

30: I saw the rabbit hole you went down, and I hope you came out the other side of it

2023-07-1333:19

NewsSwift.org Community Showcase ForumSwift on RISC-VSupporting visionOSPackagesDockProgress by Sindre SorhusSwift HTTP Types by AppleIntroducing Swift HTTP TypesColorPaletteCodable by Darren FordColour management by Marc Edwards, Part 1Colour management by Marc Edwards, Part 2Colour management by Marc Edwards, Part 3Colour management by Marc Edwards, Part 4Colour management by Marc Edwards, Part 5Aoxiang by isacedSwifter by Damian Kołakowski and Victor Sigler

29: Are you saying that visionOS is more important than my sitemap?

2023-06-2945:01

NewsCanonical URL pull request contributions by Toby HerbertTips for getting the most out of DocC by Joseph HeckPackagesMetaCodable by Soumya Ranjan MahuntAssociatedObject by p-x9Renamed by Joseph DuffySwiftyESBuild by Pedro PiñeraSwiftMath by Michael GrieblingReviewKit by Cihat Gündüz

28: Your secrets are safe with us, we’ll forget them immediately!

2023-06-1542:32

NewsWhat’s new in Swift 5.9?A Vision for Macros in Swiftswift-ast-explorerWrite Swift macros by Alex HoppenExpand on Swift macros by Becca Royal-GordonPrivacy Manifests by Tony TanVisualize Privacy Manifests – Discussion #2423 from Cihat GündüzPackagesswift-openapi-generator by AppleMeet Swift OpenAPI GeneratorRequestDL by Brenno de MouraCocoaUI by p-x9SwiftUI-Introspect by David Roman and Lois Di QualCloseEnough by Zev Eisenbergapp-store-server-library-swift by AppleBagbutik by Morten Bjerg Gregersenswiftly by Patrick Freed

27: Swift 5.9, WWDC, AR/VR/MR, and package recommendations

2023-06-0147:11

News Max Desiatov about Swift on Windows Ramin's blog post on using GPT to search documents and databases Swift Evolution on swift.org What's New in Swift 5.9 Swift forums: NIO, Concurrency, and Executors Packages LaTeXSwiftUI and MathJaxSwift by Colin Campbell URLQueryItemCoder by Kyle Hughes CountryKit by Frederik Jacques ViewKit by Lucas Werner Kuipers DCSettings by David Caddy SwiftLintPlugin by Adam Young

26: Swift on Windows, Wasm, SPI source code quiz, and package recommendations

2023-05-1840:10

News swift-win32 by Saleem Abdulrasool aka "compnerd" Wasm and SwiftWasm Max Desiatov Swift SDKs for Cross-Compilation Quiz Sitrep by Paul Hudson Packages OneFingerRotation by Matteo Fontana gonzales by Gon Solo (Andreas Wendleder) Rendering Moana with Swift blog post Moana Island Scene on Disney Animation Studios site DiscordKit by Swiftcord SwiftSoup by Nabil Chatbi

25: ChatGPT API exploration, SPI Playgrounds, Manifest validation, and package recommendations

2023-05-0445:40

NewsDiscussion topic: Generating package summaries with GPTDiscussion topic: Experimenting with ingesting in SPI data into GPT via pluginSwift Package Index Playgrounds 1.1.0Validate SPI manifestPackagesEmojiTextFoundationPreview, FoundationICU by AppleDSWaveformImageswift-ast-explorer by Kishikawa KatsumiSwift AST Explorer web appSwiftSyntaxExpression Macros Swift evolution proposal

24: Apple sponsorship Q&A and our package recommendations

2023-04-2027:46

News and Opening DiscussionThe announcement on the Swift Package Index blog.The announcement on Swift.org.PackagesCrayon by David WalterWith by Slipp Douglas Thompsondocc-gpt by Gonzalo NuñezSwift forums announcementTrustKit by Alban DiquetPolyKit by Anton Heestandmorkandmidi by Brad Howes

23: Site availability testing, Linux-only packages, and package recommendations

2023-03-2328:52

NewsStRest by Eyk RehbeinRester by Sven A. SchmidtSwift Package Index RestfilesPackagesSettings by Sindre SorhusPopupView by Alisa MylnikovaMenuBuilder by Jed FoxContributorUI by Dscyre ScottiGEOSwift by Andrew Hershberger, Virgilio Favero Neto, and Andrea Cremaschiswift-cli-version by Michael Housh

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