Swift Package Indexing

Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt

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.

  1. 28 AUG

    61: People have been working on it for ten years

    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’hommeaux Android Working GroupInitial community announcementOfficial announcementPorting Swift packages to AndroidSkip and Kotlin MultiplatformPackages Uncertain by Mattt Thompsonswift-complexity by Fumiya TanakaSQLCipher.swift by Micah MooreLottie by Airbnb

    44 min

  2. 7 AUG

    60: Filename suffixes in Swift package prefixes

    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 GroffPackages Cadova by Tomas FranzénSwiftQC by Sheldon AristideEmailValidator by David MichaelSubprocess by Apple

    43 min

  3. 10 JUL

    59: At least mine was related to Swift

    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 GroupEcosystem Steering GroupCodeEdit: Introducing New Packages: WelcomeWindow and AboutWindowWelcomeWindowAboutWindowEvolution of Rust compiler errorsvia MonkeydomPackages swift-security by Dmitriy ZharovTranslateKit by Cihat GündüzTextDiffing by Simon Støvringyap by Finn VoorheesObjects2XLSX by Xu Yang

    34 min

  4. 12 JUN

    58: People used to hand code assembly

    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 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 editorPackages package-swift-lsp by Vasiliy KattoufProbing by Kamil Strzelecki

    48 min

  5. 19 MAY

    57: How many of the same packages can we pick?

    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 6xtool on the Swift forumsxtool packageThe Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies Packages Redline by Robb BöhnkeHarmonize by Lucas CavalcanteDangerswift-mocking by Gray Campbellvault-courier by Javier Cuesta

    46 min

  6. 24 APR

    56: By the next time we record, it'll definitely be there…

    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 CooperativeKashikawa KatsumiSwiftRegex.comSwift AST ExplorerPackages HasLazyServer by southkinswift-play-experimental by AppleTextReplacements by Daniel Saidiswift-snapshot-testing-macros by Adam Carterswift-snapshot-testing by Point-FreeSwiftTitleCase by Yilei Yang

    39 min

  7. 3 APR

    55: The solution is always to write more tests

    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 SoftwarePaper: The Value of Open Source SoftwareCocoaPods Trunk Read-only Plan Packages Codable 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

    46 min

  8. 13 MAR

    54: Pick a test that you know is complicated and start there

    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 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 ZamoraPackages AtRandom by Robb Böhnkesharing-grdb by Pointfreeswift-sharing by PointfreeGRDB by Gwendal RouévisualizeTouches by Robb Böhnkeamplify-ui-swift-liveness by aws-amplifySpices by Simon Støvring

    38 min
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About

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.

Information

  • Creator
    Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    57
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © SPI Operations Limited.
  • Show Website
    Swift Package Indexing

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