Swift Package Indexing

Swift Package Indexing

Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt

Episodes 58
Avg. Duration 42m
Activity Declining
Apple Rating 4.3 (7)
Since Apr 2022
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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Monthly
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16%
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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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62: What's the plan for transitioning CocoaPods into maintenance mode?

Dec 18, 2025 47m Transcript

Interview with Orta TheroxCocoaPodsCocoaPods Support & Maintenance PlansCocoaPods Trunk Read-only PlanPuzzmoPackagesswift-configuration by Appleswift-configs by Daniil VoidilovRevenueCat by…

61: People have been working on it for ten years

Aug 28, 2025 44m Transcript

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…

60: Filename suffixes in Swift package prefixes

Aug 07, 2025 42m Transcript

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.…

59: At least mine was related to Swift

Jul 10, 2025 34m Transcript

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…

58: People used to hand code assembly

Jun 12, 2025 47m Transcript

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…

57: How many of the same packages can we pick?

May 19, 2025 45m Transcript

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…

56: By the next time we record, it'll definitely be there…

Apr 24, 2025 38m

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…

55: The solution is always to write more tests

Apr 03, 2025 46m Transcript

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…

54: Pick a test that you know is complicated and start there

Mar 13, 2025 38m Transcript

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…

53: It's not a topic I thought many people would care about, but here we are

Feb 13, 2025 47m Transcript

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…

52: In the next episode we'll fix the NPM ecosystem

Dec 05, 2024 46m Transcript

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.NewsConstraints are Good:…

51: The skill of not picking of dependencies should also be honed

Nov 07, 2024 40m Transcript

Join us as we talk about the current state of Swift, Swift 6 concurrency, Swift-Java interoperability, and hear our regular package recommendations.NewsNew sample: Tiny Swing program mixing Java and…

50: It has a learning curve like a brick wall

Oct 17, 2024 35m Transcript

Join us as we talk about the Server-side Swift Conference, Swift formatting, and hear our regular package recommendations.NewsServer-Side Swift ConferenceSwift and Interoperability by Tony Parker and…

49: 64 bytes of guaranteed uniqueness

Sep 30, 2024 42m Transcript

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…

48: It’s not just CGPaths all the way down?

Aug 29, 2024 40m Transcript

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.NewsCocoaPods Support & Maintenance…

47: There are no open-source license police

Aug 08, 2024 44m Transcript

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…

46: A concept born and explored in recent decades

Jul 11, 2024 49m Transcript

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…

45: Lies, damned lies, and statistics

Jun 20, 2024 33m Transcript

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…

44: Does Swift run on gut bacteria yet?

May 23, 2024 42m Transcript

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…

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

Apr 25, 2024 1h 6m Transcript

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…

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