Vapor: a type-safe web framework for Swift
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Re: Vapor: a type-safe web framework for Swift
#2The JSON response trick is just the right amount of magic.
I'm eager to make Swift my new web dev language and this looks like a very promising option if they continue to maintain that balance.
Re: Vapor: a type-safe web framework for Swift
#3Is there documentation I'm missing? Based just on the readme I don't think I understand how this works. For instance, the section on the Request object omits HTTP headers, then the Async section shows sending response headers manually. But they're sent asynchronously for some reason? There's a .Hash method that apparently does SHA-1 hashing, though I don't know why. At the point I stopped reading because I didn't understand what the examples were telling me.
I don't mean to be negative or try to poke holes in your hard work. I'd just like to know how to use it. "Insanely fast, beautiful syntax, type safe" are super alluring features! But let me know how I can build a real application with it.
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#5I'll admit my total naivete up front: isn't Swift already a typed language? Is there something about being a web framework that necessitates some other kind of type safety?
Re: Vapor: a type-safe web framework for Swift
#6Oh dear. Already a 2nd web framework in Swift. Are we about to have a cambrian explosion of Swift web frameworks, ensuring obscurity for all?
Re: Vapor: a type-safe web framework for Swift
#7Oh dear. Already a 2nd web framework in Swift. Are we about to have a cambrian explosion of Swift web frameworks, ensuring obscurity for all?
Competition is good. Two frameworks doesn't mean there'll be an explosion.
Re: Vapor: a type-safe web framework for Swift
#8This looks excellent and reminds me of the simplicity of Flask.
Once Fluent supports MySQL, I'll definitely use Vapor in a project.
Re: Vapor: a type-safe web framework for Swift
#9Oh dear. Already a 2nd web framework in Swift. Are we about to have a cambrian explosion of Swift web frameworks, ensuring obscurity for all?
What's the first one?
Re: Vapor: a type-safe web framework for Swift
#10I'll admit my total naivete up front: isn't Swift already a typed language? Is there something about being a web framework that necessitates some other kind of type safety?
The more advanced a type system is, the more it depends on what you do with it when designing an API. A well designed API in a language with a rich, expressive type system can make higher-level guarantees. On the opposite side of the spectrum you could just use Strings for most of the types (it’s web after all!) and it would still be type safe, although the type guarantees wouldn’t be of much use.