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 58 episodes available.

Swift Package Indexing episodes:

April 11, 202442: 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 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
...more
50min
March 21, 202441: 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, 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
...more
54min
January 25, 202440: 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.
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
...more
41min
January 11, 202439: 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 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
...more
50min
December 07, 202338: 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 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
...more
43min
November 16, 202337: 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. 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
...more
51min
October 26, 202336: 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!
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
...more
44min
October 05, 202335: 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!
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
...more
44min
September 21, 202334: 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. 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
...more
46min
August 31, 202333: 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 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
...more
40min

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