What is Carthage?
It exclusively uses dynamic frameworks instead of static libraries. It's a ruthlessly simple dependency manager for macOS and iOS, created by a group of developers from Github.
Carthage is a tool in the Package Managers category of a tech stack.
Carthage is an open source tool with 15K GitHub stars and 1.5K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Carthage's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Carthage?
Companies
23 companies reportedly use Carthage in their tech stacks, including Glovo, Zendesk, and Biting Bit.
Developers
29 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Carthage.
Carthage Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Carthage?
CocoaPods
It supports almost every way you would want to get source code, git, svn, bzr, http and hg. You can use your own private code repository to manage your own dependencies. It only requires a git repo, no server necessary.
Salt
Salt is a new approach to infrastructure management. Easy enough to get running in minutes, scalable enough to manage tens of thousands of servers, and fast enough to communicate with them in seconds.
Salt delivers a dynamic communication bus for infrastructures that can be used for orchestration, remote execution, configuration management and much more.
Rome
It is an experimental JavaScript toolchain. It includes a compiler, linter, formatter, bundler, testing framework and more. It aims to be a comprehensive tool for anything related to the processing of JavaScript source code.
SPM
Cloud and On Premises Performance Monitoring, Alerting, and Anomaly Detection with Log Correlation, Events, and Custom Metrics.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
