I have been using cocoapods for quite some time and love it, but with the transition to Swift from Objective-C, there have certainly been some issues that have arisen, in terms of projects that haven’t been updated to pods, as well as cocoa pods not really being compatible with swift the way I wanted it to. I know over time this will certainly improve, and I won’t stop using it, but in the meantime, I have come across an excellent new dependency management tool called Carthage which is certainly worth looking at. 

I would highly suggest you check out the video and slides below of a recent presentation given at Realm.io, another group of folks that I really enjoy and appreciate.