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Swift Package Indexing Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt
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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.
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46: A concept born and explored in recent decades
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 ErrorsSwitching to ephemeral macOS build runnersMacStadium FOSS programPackages
swift-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
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!
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Swift 6 Migration GuideMatt Massicotte’s Swift 6 blog seriesPackages
BlurHashViews 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?
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.
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SE-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 ForumsPackages
swift-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
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 -
42: We need a “No one expects the Spanish inquisition“ sound effect
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 -
41: Breaking our “skipping episodes” streak
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
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With news and analysis of the Swift ecosystem, this podcast fills a void that has existed since the conclusion of Swift Unwrapped. As a serial podcast consumer, I appreciate this podcast’s crystal-clear audio.