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Dependency manager comparison

How do CocoaPods, Carthage, and Swift Package Manager differ in the way they put a dependency into your project?

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CocoaPods uses a central spec repository and injects a workspace, so it edits your project; Carthage is decentralized and builds binaries you link by hand; SPM ships inside Xcode, and you declare dependencies in Package.swift so Xcode resolves and builds them.

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