CocoaPods vs Poetry

CocoaPods vs Poetry: What are the differences?

Developers describe CocoaPods as "A dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects". 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. On the other hand, Poetry is detailed as "Python dependency management and packaging made easy". It helps you declare, manage and install dependencies of Python projects, ensuring you have the right stack everywhere. It comes with all the tools you might need to manage your projects in a deterministic way.

CocoaPods and Poetry can be primarily classified as "Dependency Management" tools.

Some of the features offered by CocoaPods are:

• Incremental Installation
• Support Multiple Swift Versions & Pod Projects
• Define App Specs for Example Apps

On the other hand, Poetry provides the following key features:

• Easily build and package your projects with a single command
• Make your work known by publishing it to PyPI
• Having an insight of your project's dependencies is just one command away

CocoaPods and Poetry are both open source tools. It seems that CocoaPods with 12.6K GitHub stars and 2.27K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Poetry with 11.2K GitHub stars and 795 GitHub forks.