Swift Package Indexing

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 Bashour
• RTSanStandaloneSwift by Josip Ćavar
  • Time to Get Real – Introducing RealtimeSanitizer for Swift
  • Clang RealtimeSanitizer
• swift-file by Jihoon Ahn
• RenderMeThis by Aether
• GlowGetter by Aether

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 by Jesse Zamora

Packages

• AtRandom by Robb Böhnke
• sharing-grdb by Pointfree
  • swift-sharing by Pointfree
  • GRDB by Gwendal Roué
• visualizeTouches by Robb Böhnke
• amplify-ui-swift-liveness by aws-amplify
• Spices by Simon Støvring

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 Tomas Franzén
• swift-zip-archive by Adam Fowler
• Forked by Drew McCormack
• SkinSmoothingFilter by shima
• numerix by Gavin Wiggins

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 DimensionDev
• Fuzi by Ce Zheng
• Orb by Siddhant Mehta
• SoulverCore by Zac Cohan
• Queue by Matt Massicotte

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

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

• LocationRadiusPicker by Eman Basic
• Recap by Joe Fabisevich
• TinyStorage by Christian Selig
• swift-async-operations by matsuji

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 Vapor
  • Swift HTTP Types

Packages

• swift-snowflake by Jaehong Kang
• Versionator by Sam Deane
• GameControllerKit by Wesley de Groot
• swift-export by Frank Lefebvre
• Chip8iEmulationCore by Danijel Stracenski
• SpectreKit by Patrik Svensson

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 Simon B. Støvring
  • Recreating iMessage Confetti

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 plain english
  • swift-argument-parser by Apple
• swiftmacro-cloaked-string by Lukas Gergel
• KeyColor by Anton Heestand
• Lightpack by Daniel Noskin

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 release blog post
• SwiftSessions by Alessio Rubicini
• Tabular by António Pedro Marques
• CoreXLSX by Max Desiatov

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 Battistella

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 requests, even at concurrency of 100! on the Swift Forums

Packages

• swift-chess-neo by Navan Chauhan 
  • Sage by Nikolai Vazquez
• swift-security by Dmitriy Zharov
• swift-glob by David Beck
• AnyCodingKey by Rob Napier

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 Matt Massicotte
• generative-ai-swift by Google
• Fit 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 optimisation
  • https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-support-lto-for-swift/67379
  • https://developer.apple.com/wwdc22/110362

News

• The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
• Calling Haskell from Swift by Rodrigo Mesquita
• Proposal Monitor by Victor Martins

Packages

• whisperkit by Zach Nagengast
  • MacWhisper by Jordi Bruin
• Async-Channels by Brian Floersch
  • Performance discussion on the Swift Forums
  • swift-async-algorithms by Apple
• KeyCodes by Matt Massicotte
  • SFSafeSymbols by Frederick Pietschmann
• Ignite by Paul Hudson
  • Publish 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 SwiftToCLR
• Swift on ARM Windows 11
• Swift Tooling: Windows Edition
• Swift on the Playdate
  • Panic Podcast

Packages

• Threadcrumb by Alexander Cohen
• FlyingFox by Simon Whitty
• ExpectToEventuallyEqual by Jon Reid
• swift-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.

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

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)
• package-benchmark by Joakim Hassila
  • On percentiles: Wikipedia: Seven-number summary
  • Gil Tene: Dispelling standard deviation
• PlusNightMode by Daniel Lyons
• websocket-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!

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
• Pow by Robb Böhnke
• Gestures by Mikhail Vospennikov
• ScintillaLib by danielle
• NSAttributedStringBuilder by Jasmin Eilers 
  • RichString by Stefan van den Oord 
  • NSAttributedStringBuilder by Ethan Huang
• SwiftUICoreImage by Dan Wood

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 by scchn
• ObfuscateMacro by p-x9

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