Swift Package Indexing

By 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.... more

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The podcast currently has 57 episodes available.

Swift Package Indexing episodes:

August 28, 202561: 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 Group
Initial community announcement
Official announcement
Porting Swift packages to Android
Skip and Kotlin Multiplatform
Packages
Uncertain by Mattt Thompson
swift-complexity by Fumiya Tanaka
SQLCipher.swift by Micah Moore
Lottie by Airbnb
...more
45min
August 07, 202560: 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 Groff
Packages
Cadova by Tomas Franzén
SwiftQC by Sheldon Aristide
EmailValidator by David Michael
Subprocess by Apple
...more
43min
July 10, 202559: 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 Group
Ecosystem Steering Group
CodeEdit: Introducing New Packages: WelcomeWindow and AboutWindow
WelcomeWindow
AboutWindow
Evolution of Rust compiler errors
via Monkeydom
Packages
swift-security by Dmitriy Zharov
TranslateKit by Cihat Gündüz
TextDiffing by Simon Støvring
yap by Finn Voorhees
Objects2XLSX by Xu Yang
...more
35min
June 12, 202558: 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 Index
Adding Wasm and Android compatibility testing
One Number to Rule Them All: Why I'd Love Apple's Unified OS Versioning
Coded with Claude Code: CriticMarkup
The Future of Vibe Coding: Building with AI, Live and Unfiltered
Zed editor
Packages
package-swift-lsp by Vasiliy Kattouf
Probing by Kamil Strzelecki
...more
48min
May 19, 202557: 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 6
xtool on the Swift forums
xtool package
The Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies

Packages
Redline by Robb Böhnke
Harmonize by Lucas Cavalcante
Danger
swift-mocking by Gray Campbell
vault-courier by Javier Cuesta
...more
46min
April 24, 202556: 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 Cooperative
Kashikawa Katsumi
SwiftRegex.com
Swift AST Explorer
Packages
HasLazyServer by southkin
swift-play-experimental by Apple
TextReplacements by Daniel Saidi
swift-snapshot-testing-macros by Adam Carter
swift-snapshot-testing by Point-Free
SwiftTitleCase by Yilei Yang
...more
39min
April 03, 202555: 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 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
...more
47min
March 13, 202554: 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 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
...more
39min
February 13, 202553: It's not a topic I thought many people would care about, but here we are
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
...more
48min
December 05, 202452: In the next episode we'll fix the NPM ecosystem
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
...more
47min

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How many episodes does Swift Package Indexing have?

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