Building CLI Tools in Swift

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The talk explains building development and CI command-line tools using Swift instead of scripting languages. It describes problems with script-based tools (onboarding, using Apple libraries, creating complex tools) and shows how Auto.ru migrated to Swift, covering use of SwiftPM API, SwiftSyntax, and third-party Swift CLI libraries.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:07Speaker background
3. 2:12CLI purpose
4. 4:10Swift for CLI
5. 6:00Swift Argument Parser
6. 7:49Project structure
7. 9:16Swift static analysis
8. 13:14Logs with XCBeauty
9. 16:27Logging with Swift Log
10. 17:55CLI build nuances
11. 20:50State and parameters
12. 23:23iOS build commands
13. 24:49Summary and examples
14. 25:53Q&A

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