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