Swift Plugins: Speeding Up Project Builds

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Explains how to use Swift Package plugins (Swift Package plugins introduced in 2022) to speed up project builds by integrating code-generation and formatting helpers such as SwiftFormat, SwiftGen, Sourcery, Needle and Prefire. Describes what Swift Plugins are, the different kinds, and shows that running these helpers via plugins can reduce a build step from about 1m30s to around 5s. Notes that plugins work with both Swift Package Manager and Xcode 14.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:32Speaker background
3. 5:02Slow build problem
4. 7:55Optimization goal
5. 10:03Parallelization and modularity
6. 12:51Swift plugins
7. 16:01Plugin benefits
8. 18:54Swift plugin limitations
9. 22:10Sourcery plugin example
10. 27:56Plugin integration
11. 28:18Plugins vs scripts
12. 31:55Optimization results
13. 33:06Q&A

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