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 M

44: Does Swift run on gut bacteria yet?

May 23rd, 2024 42m 31s

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 TargetS

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

Apr 25th, 2024 1h 6m

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

42: We need a “No one expects the Spanish inquisition“ sound effect

Apr 11th, 2024 49m 31s

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 w

41: Breaking our “skipping episodes” streak

Mar 21st, 2024 53m 41s

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

40: This downtime was a joint effort

Jan 25th, 2024 40m 53s

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 Packa

39: Stress testing dependency management

Jan 11th, 2024 49m 19s

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

38: This is the least researched podcast in the history of podcasting

Dec 7th, 2023 42m 51s

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 addin

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

Nov 16th, 2023 50m 13s

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 reco

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

Oct 26th, 2023 43m 42s

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 Zh

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

Oct 5th, 2023 43m 43s

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 tutorialSwiftGo

34: Here are some packages. They may do interesting things

Sep 21st, 2023 45m 24s

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 ecosy

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

Aug 31st, 2023 39m 42s

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 fe

32: Which of your dependencies are load-bearing?

Aug 10th, 2023 48m 30s

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 depe

Jul 27th, 2023 42m 22s

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-extra

30: I saw the rabbit hole you went down, and I hope you came out the other side of it

Jul 13th, 2023 33m 19s

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

29: Are you saying that visionOS is more important than my sitemap?

Jun 29th, 2023 45m 1s

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

28: Your secrets are safe with us, we’ll forget them immediately!

Jun 15th, 2023 42m 32s

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 Gündüz

27: Swift 5.9, WWDC, AR/VR/MR, and package recommendations

Jun 1st, 2023 47m 11s

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 Coli

26: Swift on Windows, Wasm, SPI source code quiz, and package recommendations

May 18th, 2023 40m 10s

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 S

25: ChatGPT API exploration, SPI Playgrounds, Manifest validation, and package recommendations

May 4th, 2023 45m 40s

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

24: Apple sponsorship Q&A and our package recommendations

Apr 20th, 2023 27m 46s

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 DiquetPoly

23: Site availability testing, Linux-only packages, and package recommendations

Mar 23rd, 2023 28m 52s

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

22: Search ranking, building documentation on Linux, OpenAI, and package recommendations

Mar 9th, 2023 40m 14s

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 #2277Package

21: Swift Charts, over 300 documented packages, collaborative Markdown editors, and package recommendations

Feb 23rd, 2023 37m 19s

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 Ja