Swift Package Indexing

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

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

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
• CloudKitSyncMonitor by Grant Grueninger
• Lighter by Helge Heß
  • Performance Test Suite

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 Michael O’Brian
• SF2Lib by Brad Howes
• SwiftAsyncAssert by angu software
• BezelKit by Mark Battistella

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 Dependencies Checker
• Dependency details page – Issue 1321

Packages

• DataKit by Paul Kraft
• SwiftWhisper by Aaron Taylor
• CleverBird by B.T. Franklin
• Stores by Omar Albeik
• The Composable Architecture by Pointfree
• SwiftNRC by Joe Hinkle