Swift Package Indexing

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Swift Package Indexing

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..

47 minutes 43 seconds

62: What's the plan for transitioning CocoaPods into maintenance mode?
Interview with Orta Therox
Packages
- swift-configuration by Apple
- swift-configs by Daniil Voidilov
- RevenueCat by RevenueCat
- monocle by Dennis Müller
- SwiftForSwifts by Swift for Swifts
18 December 2025, 5:06 pm
44 minutes 7 seconds

61: 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
Packages
- Uncertain by Mattt Thompson
- swift-complexity by Fumiya Tanaka
- SQLCipher.swift by Micah Moore
- Lottie by Airbnb
28 August 2025, 2:00 pm
42 minutes 47 seconds

60: 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
7 August 2025, 2:00 pm
34 minutes 1 second

59: 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
Packages
- swift-security by Dmitriy Zharov
- TranslateKit by Cihat Gündüz
- TextDiffing by Simon Støvring
- yap by Finn Voorhees
- Objects2XLSX by Xu Yang
10 July 2025, 2:00 pm
47 minutes 31 seconds

58: 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
Packages
- package-swift-lsp by Vasiliy Kattouf
- Probing by Kamil Strzelecki
12 June 2025, 2:00 pm
45 minutes 57 seconds

57: 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
19 May 2025, 5:09 pm
38 minutes 35 seconds

56: 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
24 April 2025, 3:57 pm
46 minutes 4 seconds

55: 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
Packages
3 April 2025, 2:00 pm
38 minutes 27 seconds

54: 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
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
13 March 2025, 3:00 pm
47 minutes 48 seconds

53: 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
Packages
- Zip by Tomas Franzén
- swift-zip-archive by Adam Fowler
- Forked by Drew McCormack
- SkinSmoothingFilter by shima
- numerix by Gavin Wiggins
13 February 2025, 3:00 pm
46 minutes 52 seconds

52: 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
5 December 2024, 3:00 pm
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