Swift Package Indexing

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.NewsThe Swift Fundraising CooperativeKashikawa KatsumiSwiftRegex.comSwift AST ExplorerPackagesHasLazyServer by southkinswift-play-experimental by AppleTextReplacements by Daniel Saidiswift-snapshot-testing-macros by Adam Carterswift-snapshot-testing by Point-FreeSwiftTitleCase by Yilei Yang

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!NewsMastodon Post: The Value of Open Source SoftwarePaper: The Value of Open Source SoftwareCocoaPods Trunk Read-only PlanPackagesCodable by Andrii ChernenkoThe future of serialisation & deserialisationAestheticText by Kyle BashourRTSanStandaloneSwift by Josip ĆavarTime to Get Real – Introducing RealtimeSanitizer for SwiftClang RealtimeSanitizerswift-file by Jihoon AhnRenderMeThis by AetherGlowGetter by Aether

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!NewsSwiftlang: Social media expansion to Mastodon and BlueskyBluesky accountMastodon accountLeverage by Matt MassicotteIssue: Ready for Swift 6 false positivesIssue: False positives reported in Sema.NumSwift6Errors via -stats-output-dirhttps://swifttoolkit.dev/posts/r-pi by Natan Rolnik, assisted by Jesse ZamoraPackagesAtRandom by Robb Böhnkesharing-grdb by Pointfreeswift-sharing by PointfreeGRDB by Gwendal RouévisualizeTouches by Robb Böhnkeamplify-ui-swift-liveness by aws-amplifySpices by Simon Støvring

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!NewsSwift on Android Working GroupThe Next Chapter in Swift Build TechnologiesOpen Source Swift fundraisingswift.algora.ioPitch: Last expression as return valuePackagesZip by Tomas Franzénswift-zip-archive by Adam FowlerForked by Drew McCormackSkinSmoothingFilter by shimanumerix by Gavin Wiggins

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: Python's Metadata DilemmaProspective Vision: Improving the approachability of data-race safetyAnnouncement post on MastodonThe forum thread and Tim Condon's commentPackagesSocial media post about LMDBSwift Package Index search for LMDBQuickLMDBRapidLMDBSwiftLMDBEmpireFuzi fork by DimensionDevFuzi by Ce ZhengOrb by Siddhant MehtaSoulverCore by Zac CohanQueue by Matt Massicotte

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 Swiftcelsius-converteriOS Dev Weekly Issue 685 on the current state of SwiftPackagesSwiftClaude by George LyonJSONPatch by Peter RingsetSingaporeKit by Jia Chenswift-glob by Tuist, forked from David BeckGestureButton by Daniel SaidiStarCraftKit by Marcus Ziadé

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 Ben CohenWhen to Make a Macro by Daniel SteinbergLeveraging structured concurrency in your applications by Franz BuschStop worrying about routes with OpenAPI Generator by Babeth VelgheSo You Think You Know Swift? by Nick LockwoodDave's thoughts about Swift formattingChip8KitPackagesLocationRadiusPicker by Eman BasicRecap by Joe FabisevichTinyStorage by Christian Seligswift-async-operations by matsuji

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 recommendations.NewsSSWG Meetup #3SwiftWasmWasmKitServer Side Swift ConferenceWhy was there a lifesize printout of Dave at AltConf 2019?Contributions to Swift Package IndexAdd a "forked from" featureAdd "first_activity" as a search filter optionHummingbirdWhat's new in Hummingbird 2VaporThe future of VaporSwift HTTP TypesPackagesswift-snowflake by Jaehong KangVersionator by Sam DeaneGameControllerKit by Wesley de Grootswift-export by Frank LefebvreChip8iEmulationCore by Danijel StracenskiSpectreKit by Patrik Svensson

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 PlansExpansion of Swift Macros in Visual Studio CodeConfiguring Emacs for Swift DevelopmentConfiguring Neovim for Swift DevelopmentPackagesSVGPath by Nick LockwoodPaintCodeswift-cloud by Andrew BarbaPhraseKit by Mark BattistellaEditValueView by p-x9UserDefaultsEditor by RyuConfettiKit by Simon B. StøvringRecreating iMessage Confetti

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 our regular package recommendations.NewsIssue with Swift 6 error countsGeomys project announcementAcknowList by Vincent TourraineLicensePlist by Masayuki OnoPackagesEasing by Pavel Sharandaswift-homomorphic-encryption by AppleAnnouncing Swift Homomorphic EncryptionHomomorphic encryption in plain englishswift-argument-parser by Appleswiftmacro-cloaked-string by Lukas GergelKeyColor by Anton HeestandLightpack by Daniel Noskin

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 ecosystem, and to hear our regular package recommendations.  NewsPlotting a Path to a Package Ecosystem without Data Race ErrorsSwitching to ephemeral macOS build runnersMacStadium FOSS programPackagesswift-testing-revolutionary by Kohki MikiSoto by Adam Fowler and the release blog postSwiftSessions by Alessio RubiciniTabular by António Pedro MarquesCoreXLSX by Max Desiatov

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 regular package recommendations!NewsSwift 6 Migration GuideMatt Massicotte's Swift 6 blog seriesPackagesBlurHashViews by Dale Pricehttps://blurha.shDeclarativeTextKit by Christian Tietzeswiftly by Patrick FreedHummingbird by Adam FowlerSwift Server Side Meetup #2ContrastKit by Mark Battistella

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 recommendations.NewsSE-0435 Swift Language Version Per TargetSwift on Flipper Zero — A Proof of Concept by Samar SunkariaYou can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrociousSwift Tooling: Windows Editionswift-inspectJuice Sucking Servers by Axel Roest‘Standard' vapor website drops 1.5% of requests, even at concurrency of 100! on the Swift ForumsPackagesswift-chess-neo by Navan Chauhan Sage by Nikolai Vazquezswift-security by Dmitriy Zharovswift-glob by David BeckAnyCodingKey by Rob Napier

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 worry too much. Of course, all three of us pick packages, too!Interview with HollySE-0414: Region isolation SE-0431: Dynamically isolated function typesPackagesGRDB by Gwendal RouéGwendal's forum thread about adding Sendable annotationsPack by Matt CoxGeoURI by Jeff JohnstonConcurrencyRecipes by Matt Massicottegenerative-ai-swift by GoogleFit by Oleh Korchytskyi

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 upDead code stripping / Link time optimisationhttps://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-support-lto-for-swift/67379https://developer.apple.com/wwdc22/110362NewsThe Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,' the XZ Backdoor MastermindCalling Haskell from Swift by Rodrigo MesquitaProposal Monitor by Victor MartinsPackageswhisperkit by Zach NagengastMacWhisper by Jordi BruinAsync-Channels by Brian FloerschPerformance discussion on the Swift Forumsswift-async-algorithms by AppleKeyCodes by Matt MassicotteSFSafeSymbols by Frederick PietschmannIgnite by Paul HudsonPublish and Plot by John Sundell

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.  NewsCombining Swift and C# on Windows with SwiftToCLRSwift on ARM Windows 11Swift Tooling: Windows EditionSwift on the PlaydatePanic PodcastPackagesThreadcrumb by Alexander CohenFlyingFox by Simon WhittyExpectToEventuallyEqual by Jon Reidswift-package-info by Felipe Marino

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.NewsProgress of the Flutter and Dart Package Ecosystem by Ander DoboPackagesVortex by Paul HudsonLanguageDetector by Ali Sheikhizadeh and Hadi SharghiGraceLanguage by Kevin MullinsVersionedCodable by Jonathan Rothwell

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!  NewsWhen "Everything" Becomes Too Much by Feross AboukhadijehPackagesswift-gopher by Navan ChauhanThe Web Before the WebWikipedia: Gopher (protocol)package-benchmark by Joakim HassilaOn percentiles: Wikipedia: Seven-number summaryGil Tene: Dispelling standard deviationPlusNightMode by Daniel Lyonswebsocket-actor-system by Stuart A. Malone

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!NewsSwift Extension for Visual Studio Code introduction blog postSwift Extension marketplace pageGetting Started with Swift on AndroidMore Than Just Code podcast episode with DavePackagesModel3DView by FreekPow by Robb BöhnkeGestures by Mikhail VospennikovScintillaLib by danielleNSAttributedStringBuilder by Jasmin Eilers RichString by Stefan van den Oord NSAttributedStringBuilder by Ethan HuangSwiftUICoreImage by Dan Wood

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!NewsRevealing and explaining package scores by Cindy ChinThe Swift Mentorship ProgramPackagesDirectJSON by Mertol KasananSwiftSummarize by Stef KorsSKSummaryMemberwiseInit by Galen O'Hanlontyphoon by Nikita Vasilevswift-zpl by scchnObfuscateMacro by p-x9

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!NewsBreadcrumbs by Marin TodorovPackagesGrape by Zhen LiFirefly by Taylor LinemanSwift-ISO8601-DurationParser by Leon Hoppeautomerge-swift by Joe HeckAutomerge for Swift blog post

This week, we discuss importing ALL the packages, Swift 5.9, the Swift mentorship programme and package scores. Plus, of course, package recommendations!NewsScoring algorithmPackagesSwiftGodot by Miguel de IcazaDocumentation and tutorialSwiftGodotBinaryswift-sdk-generator by AppleZipPinch by Alexey Bukhtinswift-testing by Appleswift-testing Vision DocumentSwiftEmailValidator by Dave Poirier

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!NewsWorrying about the NPM ecosystemand Not Worrying Much About CratesPackagesswift-macro-testing by PointfreeA new tool for testing macros in Swiftswift-snapshot-testing by PointfreeCloudKitSyncMonitor by Grant GrueningerLighter by Helge HeßPerformance Test Suite

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.NewsStaging site for the Swift.org Packages pageand the associated pull requestPackagesxcbeautify by TuistSwiftUI-Shimmer by Vikram KriplaneySwiftPrompt by Michael O'BrianSF2Lib by Brad HowesSwiftAsyncAssert by angu softwareBezelKit by Mark Battistella

Do we understand how to add a package dependency after three years of creating the package index? No, we do not! We also discuss adding macro targets to Package pages, GitHub's CodeQL analysis for Swift, and automating updating our package dependencies. Of course, we have six new package recommendations too!Follow up"Use this Package" showing an incorrect package name/identity – Issue 2451NewsTim Condon's CodeQL post on the Swift ForumsMarco Eidinger's GitHub action Swift Package Dependencies CheckerDependency details page – Issue 1321PackagesDataKit by Paul KraftSwiftWhisper by Aaron TaylorCleverBird by B.T. FranklinStores by Omar AlbeikThe Composable Architecture by PointfreeSwiftNRC by Joe Hinkle

NewsImproved "Use this Package" button Pull RequestSwift.org Packages page integration previewand the associated Pull RequestPackagesColorToolbox by Ramon TorresFileMonitor by Kris Simon aka Peter ShawRearrange by ChimeHQswift-concurrency-extras by Point-Freeand the “Reliably testing code” forum postSwiftUI-VPSwitchToggle by Vanson LeungTLDExtractSwift by Marco Eidingerand the Public Suffix List

NewsSwift.org Community Showcase ForumSwift on RISC-VSupporting visionOSPackagesDockProgress by Sindre SorhusSwift HTTP Types by AppleIntroducing Swift HTTP TypesColorPaletteCodable by Darren FordColour management by Marc Edwards, Part 1Colour management by Marc Edwards, Part 2Colour management by Marc Edwards, Part 3Colour management by Marc Edwards, Part 4Colour management by Marc Edwards, Part 5Aoxiang by isacedSwifter by Damian Kołakowski and Victor Sigler

NewsCanonical URL pull request contributions by Toby HerbertTips for getting the most out of DocC by Joseph HeckPackagesMetaCodable by Soumya Ranjan MahuntAssociatedObject by p-x9Renamed by Joseph DuffySwiftyESBuild by Pedro PiñeraSwiftMath by Michael GrieblingReviewKit by Cihat Gündüz 

NewsWhat's new in Swift 5.9?A Vision for Macros in Swiftswift-ast-explorerWrite Swift macros by Alex HoppenExpand on Swift macros by Becca Royal-GordonPrivacy Manifests by Tony TanVisualize Privacy Manifests – Discussion #2423 from Cihat GündüzPackagesswift-openapi-generator by AppleMeet Swift OpenAPI GeneratorRequestDL by Brenno de MouraCocoaUI by p-x9SwiftUI-Introspect by David Roman and Lois Di QualCloseEnough by Zev Eisenbergapp-store-server-library-swift by AppleBagbutik by Morten Bjerg Gregersenswiftly by Patrick Freed

NewsMax Desiatov about Swift on WindowsRamin's blog post on using GPT to search documents and databasesSwift Evolution on swift.orgWhat's New in Swift 5.9Swift forums: NIO, Concurrency, and ExecutorsPackagesLaTeXSwiftUI and MathJaxSwift by Colin CampbellURLQueryItemCoder by Kyle HughesCountryKit by Frederik JacquesViewKit by Lucas Werner KuipersDCSettings by David CaddySwiftLintPlugin by Adam Young

Newsswift-win32 by Saleem Abdulrasool aka "compnerd"Wasm and SwiftWasmMax DesiatovSwift SDKs for Cross-CompilationQuizSitrep by Paul HudsonPackagesOneFingerRotation by Matteo Fontanagonzales by Gon Solo (Andreas Wendleder)Rendering Moana with Swift blog postMoana Island Scene on Disney Animation Studios siteDiscordKit by SwiftcordSwiftSoup by Nabil Chatbi

NewsDiscussion topic: Generating package summaries with GPTDiscussion topic: Experimenting with ingesting in SPI data into GPT via pluginSwift Package Index Playgrounds 1.1.0Validate SPI manifestPackagesEmojiTextFoundationPreview, FoundationICU by AppleDSWaveformImageswift-ast-explorer by Kishikawa KatsumiSwift AST Explorer web appSwiftSyntaxExpression Macros Swift evolution proposal

News and Opening DiscussionThe announcement on the Swift Package Index blog.The announcement on Swift.org.PackagesCrayon by David WalterWith by Slipp Douglas Thompsondocc-gpt by Gonzalo NuñezSwift forums announcementTrustKit by Alban DiquetPolyKit by Anton Heestandmorkandmidi by Brad Howes

NewsStRest by Eyk RehbeinRester by Sven A. SchmidtSwift Package Index RestfilesPackagesSettings by Sindre SorhusPopupView by Alisa MylnikovaMenuBuilder by Jed FoxContributorUI by Dscyre ScottiGEOSwift by Andrew Hershberger, Virgilio Favero Neto, and Andrea Cremaschiswift-cli-version by Michael Housh

NewsBuilding DocC documentation on LinuxThe first two adopting packages are Benchmark and Frostflake by Joakim HassilaWeird issue with cp -r behaving differently on macOS and LinuxDocumentation build details pull requests #2110 and #2277PackagesPuid by PUIDMacControlCenterUI by Steffan AndrewsBWToolkit by Brandon WalkinGPTSwift by Dennis MüllerOpenAIKit by Sergey Zhuravel and Mukha KirillPeriphery by Ian Leitch

NewsPost about charts in SwiftThe package documentation  histogram GistHackMD collaborative Markdown editorPackagesYorkie by Yorkie TeamPotentCodables by OutfoxTypographyKit by Ross ButlerRichStringKit by Robbie MoyerVatNumberKit by Frederik JacquesSwiftyCreatives by Yuki Kuwashima

NewsThe Google Search ApplianceMacWhisper by Jordi BruinPackagesSextant by Rocco Bowlingstable-diffusion by AppleMarkdownView by LiYanan2004DiscordBM by Mahdi BahramiMarkdownText by ShapsRelax by Thomas De LeonTootSDK by Konstantin Kostov and David WoodMastodonKit by Ornithologist CoderMastodon.swift by Marcus Kida and Thomas BonkMastodonAPI by Bei Lei

NewsAre we server yet?AWS GravitonPackagesswift-markdown-ui by Guille GonzalezKVKCalendar by Sergei KviatkovskiiDraftsman by Nayanda Habertytart by Cirrus LabsSunKit by SunlittPreviewResizable by Joan Duat

NewsAWS Graviton CPUEmpower Apps podcastQuiz46 packages (< 1%) are compatible with Swift 5.6 but not with 5.7PackagesKnob by Brad Howesswift-dependencies by Point-Freeswift-dependencies-additions by Thomas GrapperonFoil by Jesse Squiresswift-numberkit by Matthias ZengerJXKit by JECTIVEswift-screenshot-scribbler by Christoph Göldner

NewsServer Side Swift conferenceThe Future of FoundationSwift CloudSwift AWS Lambda RuntimePackagesRichTextKit by Daniel SaidiZip by Roy MarmelsteinZIPFoundation by Thomas ZoechlingSWCompression by Timofey SolomkoDSFQuickActionBar by Darren FordLottie by AirbnbArrayBuilder by Wilhelm Oksswift-backtrace by Nathan S.

NewsDocC Quick Navigation feature by Sofía RodriguezSemanticVersion Docs PreviewSPIManifest Docs PreviewArgumentParser Docs PreviewServerSide.swift ConferencePackagesSwiftCompactor by OpenAllocVanMoofKit by Sven TiigiR.swift by Mathijs KadijkGRDB by Gwendal RouéPonyExpress by Adam Wulf

NewsSwift Package Indexing podcast feedDocC Quick Navigation feature by Sofía RodriguezArgument Parser Quick Navigation previewPackagesAtlantis by Proxymanswift-tagged by PointfreeSatin by Hi-RezLaunchAtLogin-Modern by Sindre Sorhusxcodes by Robots and PencilsWolfLorem by Wolf McNally

NewsSwiftPackageIndex on MastodonSwiftPackageUpdates on MastodonPackagesWave by Janum Triveditext-to-emoji by Wouter Wisseswift-argument-parser by AppleSwiftGUI by Yonas Kolb (author of Mint)Diligence by InSevenQuick by QuickNimble by Quick

NewsSPIManifest documentationSwift Argument ParserRaycastSwift Package Index extension by Maxim KroukSearch improvementsPackagesDynamicIslandUtilities by Suyash SrijanThe Composable Architecture by Pointfree. We also mentioned this blog post.RubyGateway by John FairhurstStatKit by Jimmy M Andersson

NewsPackage Registry ServiceReference implementationPackagesKitura 3.0 by the Kitura TeamSnapshot Testing by Pointfree (Brandon Williams & Stephen Celis)Shwift by George LyonPhysical by Jeff BiggusJeff's talk at 360|iDev

NewsVirtualization framework VirtualBuddy by Guilherme Rambo.PackagesPackageBuildInfo by Dmitriy BorovikovDeckUI by Josh Holtzswift-math-parser by Brad HowesMarkCodable by Marin Todorov

PackagesSoulverStringParsing by Zac CohanMarkupEditor by Steve HarrisAckGen by Martin PfundmairBagbutik by Morten Bjerg GregersenXCTestHTMLReport by the XCTestHTMLReport team

NewsImprovements to search by Joe HeckQuizWhich author/organisation has shipped the most releases? by James SherlockHow many packages are there without any build failures? by Nathan HarrisWhat package is most frequently used as a dependency? by Thomas GrapperonPackagesShortcutRecorder by Ilya KulakovSwiftCommand by Josef ZollerShwift by George LyonIrregularGradient by João GabrielSwiftTUI by Rens BreurISO8601DurationFormatter by kkla320

NewsCPANCoRecursive: Coding StoriesCPAN - This Day In HistoryPackagesVisionFaceAware from Gentian BarilevaDSFSparkline from Darren FordKeyboard and Tonic from AudioKitMarkdownUI from Guille Gonzalez

InterviewSimon Støvrin on TwitterRunestonesimonbs.devSimon's Github profilePackagesSDWebImage by SDWebImageMotion by Adam BellTable by Jan GormanSwiftyTextTable by Scott HoytPublish by John SundellSwiftPackageList by Felix Herrmann

PackagesAnyCodable by Flight SchoolCompactSlider by Alexey BukhtinKodable by João MouratoQRCode by Darren FordRunestone by Simon StøvringSFSafeSymbols by SFSafeSymbolsShapeScript by Nick LockwoodTime by Oleg DreymanUIOnboarding by Lukman AščićVeximoji by Arnold Rozonswiftui-app-icon-creator by Dariusz Rybicki