Swift Package Indexing

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42: We need a “No one expects the Spanish inquisition“ sound effect Apr 11, 2024

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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!

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Dead code stripping / Link time optimisation
- https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-support-lto-for-swift/67379
- https://developer.apple.com/wwdc22/110362

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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

41: Breaking our “skipping episodes” streak Mar 21, 2024

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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.

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Packages

40: This downtime was a joint effort Jan 25, 2024

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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.

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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

39: Stress testing dependency management Jan 11, 2024

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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!

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When "Everything" Becomes Too Much by Feross Aboukhadijeh

Packages

38: This is the least researched podcast in the history of podcasting Dec 07, 2023

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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

37: With praise, you can include me, but any blame goes to Dave Nov 16, 2023

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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

36: Even though the bug is fixed, it's not over! Oct 26, 2023

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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!

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Breadcrumbs by Marin Todorov

Packages

35: It’s like a broccoli-eating competition. You can cheat by eating more broccoli, but you just end up more healthy Oct 05, 2023

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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

34: Here are some packages. They may do interesting things Sep 21, 2023

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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

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33: We had some success, but it never saw the light of day Aug 31, 2023

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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.

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Staging site for the Swift.org Packages page
- and the associated pull request

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