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Carthage vs CocoaPods: What are the differences?

What is Carthage? A simple, decentralized dependency manager for Cocoa. 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.

What is CocoaPods? A dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects. CocoaPods 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.

Carthage and CocoaPods can be categorized as "Dependency Management" tools.

Carthage and CocoaPods are both open source tools. It seems that Carthage with 13K GitHub stars and 1.28K forks on GitHub has more adoption than CocoaPods with 11.7K GitHub stars and 2.11K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, CocoaPods has a broader approval, being mentioned in 32 company stacks & 14 developers stacks; compared to Carthage, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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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.

What is 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.

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What are some alternatives to Carthage and CocoaPods?
Salt
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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
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JavaScript
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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.
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