Swift Package Indexing

62: What's the plan for transitioning CocoaPods into maintenance mode?

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

61: People have been working on it for ten years

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

60: Filename suffixes in Swift package prefixes

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

59: At least mine was related to Swift

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

58: People used to hand code assembly

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