Swift Package Indexing

By Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt

What's Swift Package Indexing 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.

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Swift Package Indexing episodes:

05.23.2024
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. NewsSE-0435 Swift Language Version Per TargetSwift on...
04.25.2024
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....
04.11.2024
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...
03.21.2024
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,...
01.25.2024
40: This downtime was a joint effort
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. NewsProgress of the Flutter and Dart Package Ecosystem by...
01.11.2024
39: Stress testing dependency management
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...
12.07.2023
38: This is the least researched podcast in the history of podcasting
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...
11.16.2023
37: With praise, you can include me, but any blame goes to Dave
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....
10.26.2023
36: Even though the bug is fixed, it's not over!
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! NewsBreadcrumbs by Marin...
10.05.2023
35: It’s like a broccoli-eating competition. You can cheat by eating more broccoli, but you just end up more healthy
This week, we discuss importing ALL the packages, Swift 5.9, the Swift mentorship programme and package scores. Plus, of course, package recommendations! NewsScoring algorithmPackagesSwiftGodot by Miguel de IcazaDocumentation and tutorialSwiftGodotBinaryswift-sdk-generator by AppleZipPinch by Alexey Bukhtinswift-testing by Appleswift-testing Vision DocumentSwiftEmailValidator by...
09.21.2023
34: Here are some packages. They may do interesting things
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....
08.31.2023
33: We had some success, but it never saw the light of day
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...
08.10.2023
32: Which of your dependencies are load-bearing?
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...
07.27.2023
31: Recommended by the Ministry of "How hard can it be?"
NewsImproved "Use this Package" button Pull RequestSwift.org Packages page integration previewand the associated Pull RequestPackagesColorToolbox by Ramon TorresFileMonitor by Kris Simon aka Peter ShawRearrange by ChimeHQswift-concurrency-extras by Point-Freeand the “Reliably testing code” forum postSwiftUI-VPSwitchToggle by Vanson LeungTLDExtractSwift by Marco Eidingerand...
07.13.2023
30: I saw the rabbit hole you went down, and I hope you came out the other side of it
NewsSwift.org Community Showcase ForumSwift on RISC-VSupporting visionOSPackagesDockProgress by Sindre SorhusSwift HTTP Types by AppleIntroducing Swift HTTP TypesColorPaletteCodable by Darren FordColour management by Marc Edwards, Part 1Colour management by Marc Edwards, Part 2Colour management by Marc Edwards, Part 3Colour management by...
06.29.2023
29: Are you saying that visionOS is more important than my sitemap?
NewsCanonical URL pull request contributions by Toby HerbertTips for getting the most out of DocC by Joseph HeckPackagesMetaCodable by Soumya Ranjan MahuntAssociatedObject by p-x9Renamed by Joseph DuffySwiftyESBuild by Pedro PiñeraSwiftMath by Michael GrieblingReviewKit by Cihat Gündüz
06.15.2023
28: Your secrets are safe with us, we’ll forget them immediately!
NewsWhat’s new in Swift 5.9?A Vision for Macros in Swiftswift-ast-explorerWrite Swift macros by Alex HoppenExpand on Swift macros by Becca Royal-GordonPrivacy Manifests by Tony TanVisualize Privacy Manifests – Discussion #2423 from Cihat GündüzPackagesswift-openapi-generator by AppleMeet Swift OpenAPI GeneratorRequestDL by Brenno...
06.01.2023
27: Swift 5.9, WWDC, AR/VR/MR, and package recommendations
NewsMax Desiatov about Swift on WindowsRamin's blog post on using GPT to search documents and databasesSwift Evolution on swift.orgWhat's New in Swift 5.9Swift forums: NIO, Concurrency, and ExecutorsPackagesLaTeXSwiftUI and MathJaxSwift by Colin CampbellURLQueryItemCoder by Kyle HughesCountryKit by Frederik JacquesViewKit by...
05.18.2023
26: Swift on Windows, Wasm, SPI source code quiz, and package recommendations
Newsswift-win32 by Saleem Abdulrasool aka "compnerd"Wasm and SwiftWasmMax DesiatovSwift SDKs for Cross-CompilationQuizSitrep by Paul HudsonPackagesOneFingerRotation by Matteo Fontanagonzales by Gon Solo (Andreas Wendleder)Rendering Moana with Swift blog postMoana Island Scene on Disney Animation Studios siteDiscordKit by SwiftcordSwiftSoup by Nabil Chatbi
05.04.2023
25: ChatGPT API exploration, SPI Playgrounds, Manifest validation, and package recommendations
NewsDiscussion topic: Generating package summaries with GPTDiscussion topic: Experimenting with ingesting in SPI data into GPT via pluginSwift Package Index Playgrounds 1.1.0Validate SPI manifestPackagesEmojiTextFoundationPreview, FoundationICU by AppleDSWaveformImageswift-ast-explorer by Kishikawa KatsumiSwift AST Explorer web appSwiftSyntaxExpression Macros Swift evolution proposal
04.20.2023
24: Apple sponsorship Q&A and our package recommendations
News and Opening DiscussionThe announcement on the Swift Package Index blog.The announcement on Swift.org.PackagesCrayon by David WalterWith by Slipp Douglas Thompsondocc-gpt by Gonzalo NuñezSwift forums announcementTrustKit by Alban DiquetPolyKit by Anton Heestandmorkandmidi by Brad Howes
03.23.2023
23: Site availability testing, Linux-only packages, and package recommendations
NewsStRest by Eyk RehbeinRester by Sven A. SchmidtSwift Package Index RestfilesPackagesSettings by Sindre SorhusPopupView by Alisa MylnikovaMenuBuilder by Jed FoxContributorUI by Dscyre ScottiGEOSwift by Andrew Hershberger, Virgilio Favero Neto, and Andrea Cremaschiswift-cli-version by Michael Housh
03.09.2023
22: Search ranking, building documentation on Linux, OpenAI, and package recommendations
NewsBuilding DocC documentation on LinuxThe first two adopting packages are Benchmark and Frostflake by Joakim HassilaWeird issue with cp -r behaving differently on macOS and LinuxDocumentation build details pull requests #2110 and #2277PackagesPuid by PUIDMacControlCenterUI by Steffan AndrewsBWToolkit by Brandon...
02.23.2023
21: Swift Charts, over 300 documented packages, collaborative Markdown editors, and package recommendations
NewsPost about charts in SwiftThe package documentation histogram GistHackMD collaborative Markdown editorPackagesYorkie by Yorkie TeamPotentCodables by OutfoxTypographyKit by Ross ButlerRichStringKit by Robbie MoyerVatNumberKit by Frederik JacquesSwiftyCreatives by Yuki Kuwashima
02.09.2023
20: SPI in 2049, new “Supporters” page, and MacWhisper audio transcription
NewsThe Google Search ApplianceMacWhisper by Jordi BruinPackagesSextant by Rocco Bowlingstable-diffusion by AppleMarkdownView by LiYanan2004DiscordBM by Mahdi BahramiMarkdownText by ShapsRelax by Thomas De LeonTootSDK by Konstantin Kostov and David WoodMastodonKit by Ornithologist CoderMastodon.swift by Marcus Kida and Thomas BonkMastodonAPI by Bei...
01.27.2023
19: The SPI project is growing up, DocC uploading with AWS Lambda, and Are we server yet?
News about Swift on Server, AWS Lambda arm64 performance, and package highlights from the last couple of weeks of the Swift Package Index.
01.12.2023
Episode 18
News about AWS Lambda, Graviton, Google SEO, Swift 5.6/5.7 compatibility, as well as package highlights from the last couple of weeks of the Swift Package Index.
12.22.2022
Episode 17
All the updates, news, recommendations, and chat from the last couple of weeks of the Swift Package Index.
12.08.2022
Episode 16
All the updates, news, recommendations, and chat from the last couple of weeks of the Swift Package Index.
11.28.2022
Episode 15
All the updates, news, recommendations, and chat from the last couple of weeks in the Swift Package Index.
11.10.2022
Episode 14
All the updates, news, recommendations, and chat from the last couple of weeks in the Swift Package Index.
10.20.2022
Episode 13
All the updates, news, recommendations, and chat from the last couple of weeks in the Swift Package Index.
10.06.2022
Episode 12
All the updates, news, recommendations, and chat from the last couple of weeks in the Swift Package Index.
09.15.2022
Episode 11
All the updates, news, recommendations, and chat from the last couple of weeks in the Swift Package Index.
09.01.2022
Episode 10
All the updates, news, recommendations, and chat from the last couple of weeks in the Swift Package Index.
08.18.2022
Episode 9
All the updates, news, recommendations, and chat from the last couple of weeks in the Swift Package Index.
08.04.2022
Episode 8
All the updates, news, recommendations, and chat from the last couple of weeks in the Swift Package Index.
05.26.2022
Episode 3
All the updates, news, recommendations, and chat from the last couple of weeks in the Swift Package Index.
05.12.2022
Episode 2
All the updates, news, recommendations, and chat from the last couple of weeks in the Swift Package Index.
04.28.2022
Episode 1
All the updates, news, recommendations, and chat from the last couple of weeks in the Swift Package Index.

What's Swift Package Indexing about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Swift Package Indexing episodes:

44: Does Swift run on gut bacteria yet?

43: Now I’m worried our metrics aren’t correct! with special guest Holly Borla

42: We need a “No one expects the Spanish inquisition“ sound effect

41: Breaking our “skipping episodes” streak

40: This downtime was a joint effort

39: Stress testing dependency management

38: This is the least researched podcast in the history of podcasting

37: With praise, you can include me, but any blame goes to Dave

36: Even though the bug is fixed, it's not over!

35: It’s like a broccoli-eating competition. You can cheat by eating more broccoli, but you just end up more healthy

34: Here are some packages. They may do interesting things

33: We had some success, but it never saw the light of day

32: Which of your dependencies are load-bearing?

31: Recommended by the Ministry of "How hard can it be?"

30: I saw the rabbit hole you went down, and I hope you came out the other side of it

29: Are you saying that visionOS is more important than my sitemap?

28: Your secrets are safe with us, we’ll forget them immediately!

27: Swift 5.9, WWDC, AR/VR/MR, and package recommendations

26: Swift on Windows, Wasm, SPI source code quiz, and package recommendations

25: ChatGPT API exploration, SPI Playgrounds, Manifest validation, and package recommendations

24: Apple sponsorship Q&A and our package recommendations

23: Site availability testing, Linux-only packages, and package recommendations

22: Search ranking, building documentation on Linux, OpenAI, and package recommendations

21: Swift Charts, over 300 documented packages, collaborative Markdown editors, and package recommendations

20: SPI in 2049, new “Supporters” page, and MacWhisper audio transcription

19: The SPI project is growing up, DocC uploading with AWS Lambda, and Are we server yet?

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