Swift Package Index joins Apple

(swiftpackageindex.com)

99 points by JDevlieghere 2 hours ago | 30 comments

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peterspath 2 hours ago
Well I was thinking about making a competitor to SPI because they only support GitHub repo’s.

This news makes it easy. I’m starting the engines on this…

dragon-hn 34 minutes ago
I guess that explains why Dave Verwer handed off ownership of the iOS Dev Weekly newsletter.

Always great to see community members see success.

frou_dh 1 hour ago
Back when I was following Swift, I was a bit confused by there being 2 distinct sites that seemed to be pretty much the same thing:

- https://swiftpackageregistry.com

- https://swiftpackageindex.com

aaronvg 1 hour ago
kind of surprised Swift didn't launch with this by default, built in-house
jshier 2 hours ago
Not optimistic here. While I'm glad the SPI guys are getting paid (that is, a full time job), Apple is pretty bad at open source and developer services both, and they explicitly call out developer identity as a future direction, which doesn't fill me with hope.
eddythompson80 59 minutes ago
Apple has something with Swift similar to what Google has with Go. The language has a lot of desirable features for server development very much like Go and Rust. Especially when compared to Java and C#.

It makes sense for them to build their services using Swift instead of something like Go and the Swift-on-server team has been doing a lot of work to get swift in a usable state on Linux. Having a thriving opensource (starting with a package index) makes a lot of sense to them for that.

My only problem with Swift is personal taste and experience. I tried it on linux few times (admittingly few years ago now) and generally I wasn't a fan. Go and Rust solve all the problems that Swift could have solved for me, so I didn't bother. But just like node got an entire class of developers into server side programming, Swift could be apples approach to get their iOS and MacOS developers a way to easily write server side code in swift as well