Swift Package Indexing
Episodes
62: What's the plan for transitioning CocoaPods into maintenance mode?
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Interview with Orta TheroxCocoaPodsCocoaPods Support & Maintenance PlansCocoaPods Trunk Read-only PlanPuzzmoPackagesswift-configuration by Applesw...
61: People have been working on it for ten years
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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-platf...
60: Filename suffixes in Swift package prefixes
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 abo...
59: At least mine was related to Swift
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for more package ecosystem talk, covering the new Swift Ecosystem Steering group, extracting reusable packages from the CodeEdit codebase, and...
58: People used to hand code assembly
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us to talk about our five year anniversary of launching the Swift Package Index, adding Wasm and Android support to our compatibility testing mat...
57: How many of the same packages can we pick?
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
56: By the next time we record, it'll definitely be there…
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 coopera...
55: The solution is always to write more tests
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, m...
54: Pick a test that you know is complicated and start there
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Raspberr...
53: It's not a topic I thought many people would care about, but here we are
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
52: In the next episode we'll fix the NPM ecosystem
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 p...
51: The skill of not picking of dependencies should also be honed
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as we talk about the current state of Swift, Swift 6 concurrency, Swift-Java interoperability, and hear our regular package recommendations.Ne...
50: It has a learning curve like a brick wall
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as we talk about the Server-side Swift Conference, Swift formatting, and hear our regular package recommendations.NewsServer-Side Swift Confer...
49: 64 bytes of guaranteed uniqueness
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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, Vap...
48: It’s not just CGPaths all the way down?
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 recomme...
47: There are no open-source license police
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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, ho...
46: A concept born and explored in recent decades
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 upda...
45: Lies, damned lies, and statistics
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 migrat...
44: Does Swift run on gut bacteria yet?
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 infrastruct...
43: Now I’m worried our metrics aren’t correct! with special guest Holly Borla
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
42: We need a “No one expects the Spanish inquisition“ sound effect
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 pos...
41: Breaking our “skipping episodes” streak
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
40: This downtime was a joint effort
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Dave and Sven take a look at the Flutter ecosystem, discuss Dave's blogging system rewrite, review their collaboration on a production cras...
39: Stress testing dependency management
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
38: This is the least researched podcast in the history of podcasting
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by a recent YouTube comment left on the previous episode, Dave and Sven talk about cross-platform Swift development with Visual Studio Code, ...
37: With praise, you can include me, but any blame goes to Dave
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
36: Even though the bug is fixed, it's not over!
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
35: It’s like a broccoli-eating competition. You can cheat by eating more broccoli, but you just end up more healthy
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we discuss importing ALL the packages, Swift 5.9, the Swift mentorship programme and package scores. Plus, of course, package recommendatio...
34: Here are some packages. They may do interesting things
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What even is a recommendation? Join Dave and Sven as they talk about the tricky business of recommending, endorsing, or showcasing packages before div...
33: We had some success, but it never saw the light of day
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
32: Which of your dependencies are load-bearing?
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
31: Recommended by the Ministry of "How hard can it be?"
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NewsImproved "Use this Package" button Pull RequestSwift.org Packages page integration previewand the associated Pull RequestPackagesColorToolbox by R...
30: I saw the rabbit hole you went down, and I hope you came out the other side of it
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NewsSwift.org Community Showcase ForumSwift on RISC-VSupporting visionOSPackagesDockProgress by Sindre SorhusSwift HTTP Types by AppleIntroducing Swif...
29: Are you saying that visionOS is more important than my sitemap?
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NewsCanonical URL pull request contributions by Toby HerbertTips for getting the most out of DocC by Joseph HeckPackagesMetaCodable by Soumya Ranjan M...
28: Your secrets are safe with us, we’ll forget them immediately!
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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-Gor...
27: Swift 5.9, WWDC, AR/VR/MR, and package recommendations
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
26: Swift on Windows, Wasm, SPI source code quiz, and package recommendations
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Newsswift-win32 by Saleem Abdulrasool aka "compnerd"Wasm and SwiftWasmMax DesiatovSwift SDKs for Cross-CompilationQuizSitrep by Paul HudsonPackagesOne...
25: ChatGPT API exploration, SPI Playgrounds, Manifest validation, and package recommendations
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NewsDiscussion topic: Generating package summaries with GPTDiscussion topic: Experimenting with ingesting in SPI data into GPT via pluginSwift Package...
24: Apple sponsorship Q&A and our package recommendations
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
News and Opening DiscussionThe announcement on the Swift Package Index blog.The announcement on Swift.org.PackagesCrayon by David WalterWith by Slipp ...
23: Site availability testing, Linux-only packages, and package recommendations
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NewsStRest by Eyk RehbeinRester by Sven A. SchmidtSwift Package Index RestfilesPackagesSettings by Sindre SorhusPopupView by Alisa MylnikovaMenuBuilde...
22: Search ranking, building documentation on Linux, OpenAI, and package recommendations
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NewsBuilding DocC documentation on LinuxThe first two adopting packages are Benchmark and Frostflake by Joakim HassilaWeird issue with cp -r behaving ...
21: Swift Charts, over 300 documented packages, collaborative Markdown editors, and package recommendations
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NewsPost about charts in SwiftThe package documentation histogram GistHackMD collaborative Markdown editorPackagesYorkie by Yorkie TeamPotentCodable...
20: SPI in 2049, new “Supporters” page, and MacWhisper audio transcription
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NewsThe Google Search ApplianceMacWhisper by Jordi BruinPackagesSextant by Rocco Bowlingstable-diffusion by AppleMarkdownView by LiYanan2004DiscordBM ...
19: The SPI project is growing up, DocC uploading with AWS Lambda, and Are we server yet?
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NewsAre we server yet?AWS GravitonPackagesswift-markdown-ui by Guille GonzalezKVKCalendar by Sergei KviatkovskiiDraftsman by Nayanda Habertytart by Ci...
Episode 18
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NewsAWS Graviton CPUEmpower Apps podcastQuiz46 packages (< 1%) are compatible with Swift 5.6 but not with 5.7PackagesKnob by Brad Howesswift-depend...
Episode 17
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NewsServer Side Swift conferenceThe Future of FoundationSwift CloudSwift AWS Lambda RuntimePackagesRichTextKit by Daniel SaidiZip by Roy MarmelsteinZI...
Episode 16
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NewsDocC Quick Navigation feature by Sofía RodriguezSemanticVersion Docs PreviewSPIManifest Docs PreviewArgumentParser Docs PreviewServerSide.swift C...
Episode 15
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NewsSwift Package Indexing podcast feedDocC Quick Navigation feature by Sofía RodriguezArgument Parser Quick Navigation previewPackagesAtlantis by Pr...
Episode 14
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NewsSwiftPackageIndex on MastodonSwiftPackageUpdates on MastodonPackagesWave by Janum Triveditext-to-emoji by Wouter Wisseswift-argument-parser by A...
Episode 13
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NewsSPIManifest documentationSwift Argument ParserRaycastSwift Package Index extension by Maxim KroukSearch improvementsPackagesDynamicIslandUtilities...
Episode 12
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NewsPackage Registry ServiceReference implementationPackagesKitura 3.0 by the Kitura TeamSnapshot Testing by Pointfree (Brandon Williams & Stephen...
Episode 11
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NewsVirtualization framework VirtualBuddy by Guilherme Rambo.PackagesPackageBuildInfo by Dmitriy BorovikovDeckUI by Josh Holtzswift-math-parser by Br...
Episode 10
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
PackagesSoulverStringParsing by Zac CohanMarkupEditor by Steve HarrisAckGen by Martin PfundmairBagbutik by Morten Bjerg GregersenXCTestHTMLReport by t...
Episode 9
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NewsImprovements to search by Joe HeckQuizWhich author/organisation has shipped the most releases? by James SherlockHow many packages are there withou...
Episode 8
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NewsCPANCoRecursive: Coding StoriesCPAN - This Day In HistoryPackagesVisionFaceAware from Gentian BarilevaDSFSparkline from Darren FordKeyboard and To...
Episode 3
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
InterviewSimon Støvrin on TwitterRunestonesimonbs.devSimon’s Github profilePackagesSDWebImage by SDWebImageMotion by Adam BellTable by Jan GormanSw...
Episode 2
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
PackagesAnyCodable by Flight SchoolCompactSlider by Alexey BukhtinKodable by João MouratoQRCode by Darren FordRunestone by Simon StøvringSFSafeSymbo...
Episode 1
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
PackagesQuick and NimblePythonKit and VioletCodeEditorWebViewKit, SwiftUIKit, and swiftui-system-colorsNetworkingswift-parsinguniqueid