Natan Rolnik from swifttoolkit.dev and I chatted about building tools in Swift, ArgumentParser, Swift Package Manager, and more.

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• A Different Approach Using the Swift Argument Parser
• Copy On Write and the Swift-CowBox Macro
• Supporting Interactive Input in CLI Tools Using Property Wrappers
• Understanding Colors and Styles in Terminal Output
• apple/swift-argument-parser: Straightforward, type-safe argument parsing for Swift
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Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• (00:00) - Nathan's Work and Contribution
• (05:14) - Deep Dive into Swift CLI Tools
• (19:09) - Understanding Copy-on-Write in Swift
• (23:42) - Practical Applications and Performance Considerations
• (26:30) - Swift Package Manager and Development Tools

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