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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Join us as we talk about the Server-side Swift Conference, Swift formatting, and hear our regular package recommendations. News Server-Side Swift Conference Swift and Interoperability by Tony Parker and Ben Cohen When to Make a Macro by Daniel Steinberg Leveraging structured concurrency in your applications by Franz Busch Stop worrying about routes with OpenAPI Generator by Babeth Velghe So You Think You Know Swift? by Nick Lockwood Dave’s thoughts about Swift formatting Chip8Kit Packages LocationRadiusPicker by Eman Basic Recap by Joe Fabisevich TinyStorage by Christian Selig swift-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. News SSWG Meetup #3 SwiftWasm WasmKit Server Side Swift Conference Why was there a lifesize printout of Dave at AltConf 2019? Contributions to Swift Package Index Add a "forked from" feature Add "first_activity" as a search filter option Hummingbird What’s new in Hummingbird 2 Vapor The future of Vapor Swift HTTP Types Packages swift-snowflake by Jaehong Kang Versionator by Sam Deane GameControllerKit by Wesley de Groot swift-export by Frank Lefebvre Chip8iEmulationCore by Danijel Stracenski SpectreKit 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. News CocoaPods Support & Maintenance Plans Expansion of Swift Macros in Visual Studio Code Configuring Emacs for Swift Development Configuring Neovim for Swift Development Packages SVGPath by Nick Lockwood PaintCode swift-cloud by Andrew Barba PhraseKit by Mark Battistella EditValueView by p-x9 UserDefaultsEditor by Ryu ConfettiKit by Simon B. Støvring Recreating 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. News Issue with Swift 6 error counts Geomys project announcement AcknowList by Vincent Tourraine LicensePlist by Masayuki Ono Packages Easing by Pavel Sharanda swift-homomorphic-encryption by Apple Announcing Swift Homomorphic Encryption Homomorphic encryption in plain english swift-argument-parser by Apple swiftmacro-cloaked-string by Lukas Gergel KeyColor by Anton Heestand Lightpack 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. News Plotting a Path to a Package Ecosystem without Data Race Errors Switching to ephemeral macOS build runners MacStadium FOSS program Packages swift-testing-revolutionary by Kohki Miki Soto by Adam Fowler and the r elease blog post SwiftSessions by Alessio Rubicini Tabular by António Pedro Marques CoreXLSX 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! News Swift 6 Migration Guide Matt Massicotte’s Swift 6 blog series Packages BlurHashViews by Dale Price https://blurha.sh DeclarativeTextKit by Christian Tietze swiftly by Patrick Freed Hummingbird by Adam Fowler Swift Server Side Meetup #2 ContrastKit 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. News SE-0435 Swift Language Version Per Target Swift on Flipper Zero — A Proof of Concept by Samar Sunkaria You can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrocious Swift Tooling: Windows Edition swift-inspect Juice Sucking Servers by Axel Roest ‘Standard’ vapor website drops 1.5% of requests, even at concurrency of 100! on the Swift Forums Packages swift-chess-neo by Navan Chauhan Sage by Nikolai Vazquez swift-security by Dmitriy Zharov swift-glob by David Beck AnyCodingKey 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 Holly SE-0414: Region isolation SE-0431: Dynamically isolated function types Packages GRDB by Gwendal Roué Gwendal's forum thread about adding Sendable annotations Pack by Matt Cox GeoURI by Jeff Johnston ConcurrencyRecipes by Matt Massicotte generative-ai-swift by Google Fit 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 up Dead code stripping / Link time optimisation https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-support-lto-for-swift/67379 https://developer.apple.com/wwdc22/110362 News The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind Calling Haskell from Swift by Rodrigo Mesquita Proposal Monitor by Victor Martins Packages whisperkit by Zach Nagengast MacWhisper by Jordi Bruin Async-Channels by Brian Floersch Performance discussion on the Swift Forums swift-async-algorithms by Apple KeyCodes by Matt Massicotte SFSafeSymbols by Frederick Pietschmann Ignite by Paul Hudson Publish and Plot by John Sundell…