Yeah, and according to https://expo.dev/blog/precompiled-react-native-for-ios and linked https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-pr..., it seems moving off CocoaPods has barely moved past planning stage. Latest update from two weeks ago links to https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/52909 and says it’s very very experimental. Just great…

Gosh, that is a worry. Maybe I can help out here (I imagine the politics of a project this large will frustrate me though)

Why would you work for free for Facebook

rn is open source so I don’t personally see it as working for free for facebook but rather working for free for the dev community

There is no dev community. Is there a developers organization (unions if you must) which fights for minimum pay or work standards?

No there's not in fact it's actively frowned upon because if salaries are standardized no one will get to enjoy those huge faang pays. It'll be averages. That is not the capitalist way.

You're doing the work highly paid facebook and vercel employees are getting paid for.

It's not actually that concerning. RN's pods are vended via npm not trunk so trunk going read-only will not have an outsized impact on RN.

The risk is that over time Cocoapods will no longer work to integrate dependencies with ways Xcode wants them to be.

Switching to SPM is a massive undertaking for a large project with many intertwined dependencies and configuration options. It's far less configurable than Cocoapods with basically no scripting options during install.

Their progress already is pretty decent!

I think the most concerning part is all the third party libraries already on life support or already abandoned a few years ago will all die during the switch.

It does, in recent react native versions they show a deprecation warning when running “pod install” directly which is probably a signal they are working on moving to other package managers, but not aware of what the plan is.

Capacitor too, for hybrid mobile apps

Flutter too: https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install/macos/mobile-io...

Flutter has moved to Swift Package Manager, it’s just not enabled by default iirc

From the official docs it sounds more like experimental support that's still under development.

Already has complete support for SPM.

Unity also afaik.