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. News Paralegal via Joe Groff Packages Cadova by Tomas Franzén SwiftQC by Sheldon Aristide EmailValidator by David Micha...
Aug 07, 2025•43 min
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. News Announcing the Ecosystem Steering Group Ecosystem Steering Group CodeEdit: Introducing New Packages: WelcomeWindow and AboutWindow WelcomeWindow AboutWindow Evolution of Rust compiler errors via Monkeydom Packages swift-security b...
Jul 10, 2025•34 min
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! News Five years of the Swift Package Index Adding Wasm and Android compatibility testing One Number to Rule Them All: Why I'd Love Apple's Unified OS Versioning Coded with Claude Code: CriticMarkup The Fut...
Jun 12, 2025•48 min
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! News Ready for Swift 6 xtool on the Swift forums xtool package The Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies Packages Redline by Robb Böhnke Harmonize by Lucas Cavalcante Danger swift-mocking by Gray Campbell vault-courier by Javier Cuesta...
May 19, 2025•46 min
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. News The Swift Fundraising Cooperative Kashikawa Katsumi SwiftRegex.com Swift AST Explorer Packages HasLazyServer by southkin swift-play-experimental by Apple TextReplacements by Daniel Saidi swift-snapshot-testing-macros by Adam Carter...
Apr 24, 2025•39 min
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! News Mastodon Post: The Value of Open Source Software Paper: The Value of Open Source Software CocoaPods Trunk Read-only Plan Packages Codable by Andrii Chernenko The future of serialisation & deserialisation AestheticText by Kyle Bas...
Apr 03, 2025•46 min
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! News Swiftlang: Social media expansion to Mastodon and Bluesky Bluesky account Mastodon account Leverage by Matt Massicotte Issue: Ready for Swift 6 false positives Issue: False positives reported in Sema.NumSwift6Errors via -stats-output-dir https://swifttoolkit.dev/posts/r-pi by Natan Rolnik , assisted...
Mar 13, 2025•38 min
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! News Swift on Android Working Group The Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies Open Source Swift fundraising swift.algora.io Pitch: Last expression as return value Packages Zip by Tom...
Feb 13, 2025•48 min
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. News Constraints are Good: Python's Metadata Dilemma Prospective Vision: Improving the approachability of data-race safety Announcement post on Mastodon The forum thread and Tim Condon’s comment Packages Social media post about LMDB Swift Package Index search for LMDB QuickLMDB RapidLMDB SwiftLMDB Empire Fuzi fork by Dimensi...
Dec 05, 2024•47 min
Join us as we talk about the current state of Swift, Swift 6 concurrency, Swift-Java interoperability, and hear our regular package recommendations. News New sample: Tiny Swing program mixing Java and Swift celsius-converter iOS Dev Weekly Issue 685 on the current state of Swift Packages SwiftClaude by George Lyon JSONPatch by Peter Ringset SingaporeKit by Jia Chen swift-glob by Tuist , forked from David Beck GestureButton by Daniel Saidi StarCraftKit by Marcus Ziadé...
Nov 07, 2024•40 min
Join us as we talk about the Server-side Swift Conference, Swift formatting, and hear our regular package recommendations. News Server-Side Swift Conference Swift and Interoperability by Tony Parker and Ben Cohen When to Make a Macro by Daniel Steinberg Leveraging structured concurrency in your applications by Franz Busch Stop worrying about routes with OpenAPI Generator by Babeth Velghe So You Think You Know Swift? by Nick Lockwood Dave’s thoughts about Swift formatting Chip8Kit Packages Locati...
Oct 17, 2024•35 min
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. News SSWG Meetup #3 SwiftWasm WasmKit Server Side Swift Conference Why was there a lifesize printout of Dave at AltConf 2019? Contributions to Swift Package Index Add a "forked from" feature Add "first_activity" as a search filter option Hummingbird What’s new in Hummingbird 2 Vapor The future of ...
Sep 30, 2024•42 min
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. News CocoaPods Support & Maintenance Plans Expansion of Swift Macros in Visual Studio Code Configuring Emacs for Swift Development Configuring Neovim for Swift Development Packages SVGPath by Nick Lockwood PaintCode swift-cloud by Andrew Barba PhraseKit by Mark Battistella EditValueView by p-x9 UserDefaultsEditor by Ryu ConfettiKit by...
Aug 29, 2024•41 min
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. News Issue with Swift 6 error counts Geomys project announcement AcknowList by Vincent Tourraine LicensePlist by Masayuki Ono Packages Easing by Pavel Sharanda swift-homomorphic-encryption by Apple Announcing Swift Homomorphic Encryption Homomorphic encryption in p...
Aug 08, 2024•44 min
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. News Plotting a Path to a Package Ecosystem without Data Race Errors Switching to ephemeral macOS build runners MacStadium FOSS program Packages swift-testing-revolutionary by Kohki Miki Soto by Adam Fowler and the r elease blog post SwiftSes...
Jul 11, 2024•49 min
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! News Swift 6 Migration Guide Matt Massicotte’s Swift 6 blog series Packages BlurHashViews by Dale Price https://blurha.sh DeclarativeTextKit by Christian Tietze swiftly by Patrick Freed Hummingbird by Adam Fowler Swift Server Side Meetup #2 ContrastKit by Mark Battist...
Jun 20, 2024•34 min
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. News SE-0435 Swift Language Version Per Target Swift on Flipper Zero — A Proof of Concept by Samar Sunkaria You can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrocious Swift Tooling: Windows Edition swift-inspect Juice Sucking Servers by Axel Roest ‘Standard’ vapor website drops 1.5% of requ...
May 23, 2024•43 min
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 Holly SE-0414: Region isolation SE-0431: Dynamically isolated function types Packages GRDB by Gwendal Roué Gwendal's forum thread about adding Sendable annotations Pack by Matt Cox GeoURI by Jeff Johnston ConcurrencyRecipes by...
Apr 25, 2024•1 hr 6 min
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 up Dead code stripping / Link time optimisation https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-support-lto-for-swift/67379 https://developer.apple.com/wwdc22/110362 ...
Apr 11, 2024•50 min
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. News Combining Swift and C# on Windows with SwiftToCLR Swift on ARM Windows 11 Swift Tooling: Windows Edition Swift on the Playdate Panic Podcast Packages Threadcrumb by Alexander Cohen FlyingFox by...
Mar 21, 2024•54 min
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. News Progress of the Flutter and Dart Package Ecosystem by Ander Dobo Packages Vortex by Paul Hudson LanguageDetector by Ali Sheikhizadeh and Hadi Sharghi GraceLanguage by Kevin Mullins VersionedCodable by Jonathan Rothwell...
Jan 25, 2024•41 min
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! News When "Everything" Becomes Too Much by Feross Aboukhadijeh Packages swift-gopher by Navan Chauhan The Web Before the Web Wikipedia: Gopher (protocol) pac...
Jan 11, 2024•49 min
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! News Swift Extension for Visual Studio Code introduction blog post Swift Extension marketplace page Getting Started with Swift on Android More Than Just Code podcast episode with Dave Packages Model3DView by Freek ...
Dec 07, 2023•43 min
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 Chin The Swift Mentorship Program Packages DirectJSON by Mertol Kasanan SwiftSummarize by Stef Kors SKSummary MemberwiseInit by Galen O’Hanlon typhoon by Nikita Vasilev swift-zpl...
Nov 16, 2023•50 min
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! News Breadcrumbs by Marin Todorov Packages Grape by Zhen Li Firefly by Taylor Lineman Swift-ISO8601-DurationParser by Leon Hoppe automerge-swift by Joe Heck Automerge for Swift blog post...
Oct 26, 2023•44 min
This week, we discuss importing ALL the packages, Swift 5.9, the Swift mentorship programme and package scores. Plus, of course, package recommendations! News Scoring algorithm Packages SwiftGodot by Miguel de Icaza Documentation and tutorial SwiftGodotBinary swift-sdk-generator by Apple ZipPinch by Alexey Bukhtin swift-testing by Apple swift-testing Vision Document SwiftEmailValidator by Dave Poirier...
Oct 05, 2023•44 min
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! News Worrying about the NPM ecosystem and Not Worrying Much About Crates Packages swift-macro-testing by Pointfree A new tool for testing macros in Swift swift-snapshot-testing by Pointfree CloudKitS...
Sep 21, 2023•45 min
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. News Staging site for the Swift.org Packages page and the associated pull request Packages xcbeautify by Tuist SwiftUI-Shimmer by Vikram Kriplaney SwiftPrompt by ...
Aug 31, 2023•40 min
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 Dependenci...
Aug 10, 2023•49 min
News Improved "Use this Package" button Pull Request Swift.org Packages page integration preview and the associated Pull Request Packages ColorToolbox by Ramon Torres FileMonitor by Kris Simon aka Peter Shaw Rearrange by ChimeHQ swift-concurrency-extras by Point-Free and the “Reliably testing code” forum post SwiftUI-VPSwitchToggle by Vanson Leung TLDExtractSwift by Marco Eidinger and the Public Suffix List...
Jul 27, 2023•42 min
