• 58: People used to hand code assembly
    Jun 12 2025

    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

    • Five years of the Swift Package Index
    • Adding Wasm and Android compatibility testing
    • One Number to Rule Them All: Why I'd Love Apple's Unified OS Versioning
    • Coded with Claude Code: CriticMarkup
    • The Future of Vibe Coding: Building with AI, Live and Unfiltered
    • Zed editor

    Packages

    • package-swift-lsp by Vasiliy Kattouf
    • Probing by Kamil Strzelecki


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    48 mins
  • 57: How many of the same packages can we pick?
    May 19 2025

    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


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    46 mins
  • 56: By the next time we record, it'll definitely be there…
    Apr 24 2025

    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

    • HasLazyServer by southkin
    • swift-play-experimental by Apple
    • TextReplacements by Daniel Saidi
    • swift-snapshot-testing-macros by Adam Carter
      • swift-snapshot-testing by Point-Free
    • SwiftTitleCase by Yilei Yang


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    39 mins
  • 55: The solution is always to write more tests
    Apr 3 2025

    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

    • Mastodon Post: The Value of Open Source Software
    • Paper: The Value of Open Source Software
    • CocoaPods Trunk Read-only Plan


    Packages

    • Codable by Andrii Chernenko
      • The future of serialisation & deserialisation
    • AestheticText by Kyle Bashour
    • RTSanStandaloneSwift by Josip Ćavar
      • Time to Get Real – Introducing RealtimeSanitizer for Swift
      • Clang RealtimeSanitizer
    • swift-file by Jihoon Ahn
    • RenderMeThis by Aether
    • GlowGetter by Aether


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    46 mins
  • 54: Pick a test that you know is complicated and start there
    Mar 13 2025

    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

    • Swiftlang: Social media expansion to Mastodon and Bluesky
      • Bluesky account
      • Mastodon account
    • Leverage by Matt Massicotte
    • Issue: Ready for Swift 6 false positives
    • Issue: False positives reported in Sema.NumSwift6Errors via -stats-output-dir
    • https://swifttoolkit.dev/posts/r-pi by Natan Rolnik, assisted by Jesse Zamora

    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
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    38 mins
  • 53: It's not a topic I thought many people would care about, but here we are
    Feb 13 2025

    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

    • Swift on Android Working Group
    • The Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies
    • Open Source Swift fundraising
    • swift.algora.io
    • Pitch: Last expression as return value

    Packages

    • Zip by Tomas Franzén
    • swift-zip-archive by Adam Fowler
    • Forked by Drew McCormack
    • SkinSmoothingFilter by shima
    • numerix by Gavin Wiggins
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    48 mins
  • 52: In the next episode we'll fix the NPM ecosystem
    Dec 5 2024

    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

    • Social media post about LMDB
    • Swift Package Index search for LMDB
      • QuickLMDB
      • RapidLMDB
      • SwiftLMDB
      • Empire
    • Fuzi fork by DimensionDev
    • Fuzi by Ce Zheng
    • Orb by Siddhant Mehta
    • SoulverCore by Zac Cohan
    • Queue by Matt Massicotte
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    47 mins
  • 51: The skill of not picking of dependencies should also be honed
    Nov 7 2024

    Join us as we talk about the current state of Swift, Swift 6 concurrency, Swift-Java interoperability, and hear our regular package recommendations.


    News

    • New sample: Tiny Swing program mixing Java and Swift
      • celsius-converter
    • iOS Dev Weekly Issue 685 on the current state of Swift

    Packages

    • SwiftClaude by George Lyon
    • JSONPatch by Peter Ringset
    • SingaporeKit by Jia Chen
    • swift-glob by Tuist, forked from David Beck
    • GestureButton by Daniel Saidi
    • StarCraftKit by Marcus Ziadé


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    40 mins