42: We need a “No one expects the Spanish inquisition“ sound effect

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