
Interview with Orta TheroxCocoaPodsCocoaPods Support & Maintenance PlansCocoaPods Trunk Read-only PlanPuzzmoPackagesswift-configuration by Appleswift-configs by Daniil VoidilovRevenueCat by RevenueCatmonocle by Dennis MüllerSwiftForSwifts by Swift for Swifts
Dec 18, 2025
47 min

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-platform app development. And, as usual, we highlight our package picks.Interview with Marc Prud’hommeauxAndroid Working GroupInitial community announcementOfficial announcementPorting Swift packages to AndroidSkip and Kotlin MultiplatformPackagesUncertain by Mattt Thompsonswift-complexity by Fumiya TanakaSQLCipher.swift by Micah MooreLottie by Airbnb
Aug 28, 2025
44 min

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 about leveraging a compiler to find privacy bugs. And, as usual, we highlight our package picks.Apologies for the background white noise at the start of the episode on Dave's microphone. It clears up about 15 minutes in to the show.NewsParalegal via Joe GroffPackagesCadova by Tomas FranzénSwiftQC by Sheldon AristideEmailValidator by David MichaelSubprocess by Apple
Aug 7, 2025
42 min

Join us for more package ecosystem talk, covering the new Swift Ecosystem Steering group, extracting reusable packages from the CodeEdit codebase, and how Rust error messages have evolved over the years. Of course, we also have plenty of package picks for you all.NewsAnnouncing the Ecosystem Steering GroupEcosystem Steering GroupCodeEdit: Introducing New Packages: WelcomeWindow and AboutWindowWelcomeWindowAboutWindowEvolution of Rust compiler errorsvia MonkeydomPackagesswift-security by Dmitriy ZharovTranslateKit by Cihat GündüzTextDiffing by Simon Støvringyap by Finn VoorheesObjects2XLSX by Xu Yang
Jul 10, 2025
34 min

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!NewsFive years of the Swift Package IndexAdding Wasm and Android compatibility testingOne Number to Rule Them All: Why I'd Love Apple's Unified OS VersioningCoded with Claude Code: CriticMarkupThe Future of Vibe Coding: Building with AI, Live and UnfilteredZed editorPackagespackage-swift-lsp by Vasiliy KattoufProbing by Kamil Strzelecki
Jun 12, 2025
47 min

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! NewsReady for Swift 6xtool on the Swift forumsxtool packageThe Next Chapter in Swift Build TechnologiesPackagesRedline by Robb BöhnkeHarmonize by Lucas CavalcanteDangerswift-mocking by Gray Campbellvault-courier by Javier Cuesta
May 19, 2025
45 min

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
Apr 24, 2025
38 min

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
Apr 3, 2025
46 min

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
Mar 13, 2025
38 min

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
Feb 13, 2025
47 min
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