Swift Package Indexing Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt

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 typesPackages
GRDB 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 up
Dead code stripping / Link time optimisationhttps://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-support-lto-for-swift/67379https://developer.apple.com/wwdc22/110362News
The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor MastermindCalling Haskell from Swift by Rodrigo MesquitaProposal Monitor by Victor MartinsPackages
whisperkit 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

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 SwiftToCLRSwift on ARM Windows 11Swift Tooling: Windows EditionSwift on the PlaydatePanic PodcastPackages
Threadcrumb by Alexander CohenFlyingFox by Simon WhittyExpectToEventuallyEqual by Jon Reidswift-package-info by Felipe Marino

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.
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Progress of the Flutter and Dart Package Ecosystem by Ander DoboPackages
Vortex by Paul HudsonLanguageDetector by Ali Sheikhizadeh and Hadi SharghiGraceLanguage by Kevin MullinsVersionedCodable by Jonathan Rothwell

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 AboukhadijehPackages
swift-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

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!
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Swift Extension for Visual Studio Code introduction blog postSwift Extension marketplace pageGetting Started with Swift on AndroidMore Than Just Code podcast episode with DavePackages
Model3DView 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