IBM to Bring Swift to the Cloud

steego wrote: post #4

You have to love how IBM uses the old fashioned press releases to try and lure young developers to use their hip new technology on their platform.

They can't ever stop doing press releases of course, but the Bluemix marketing site has a bit nicer presentation of the interesting bits: http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/swift/

Re: IBM to Bring Swift to the Cloud

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Post by melling » Mon, Feb 22, 2016, 6:23 PM UTC

KSS42 wrote: post #3

One Language to rule them all ...

That'll probably never happen but Swift is rapidly gaining popularity. Over 3 dozen books were released within 18 months of Swift's announcement:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/books

And dozens of bloggers publish Swift articles every week:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?week=20160220

Re: IBM to Bring Swift to the Cloud

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Post by pjmlp » Mon, Feb 22, 2016, 6:27 PM UTC

dijit wrote: post #5

k33n wrote: post #2

Can't say I understand the value in this at all.

Heroku for swift? Sounds like an old business model with a new language. Still, making the lumbering giant tread into the 21st century is not going to be without pain, I'm glad to see they are at least trying.

As a Java early adopter, I saw many jump to it thanks to IBM's adoption.

Assuming this might have a similar effect, Oracle should better speed up those value types and AOT compilation improvements.

Re: IBM to Bring Swift to the Cloud

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Post by BenoitP » Mon, Feb 22, 2016, 6:53 PM UTC

k33n wrote: post #2

Can't say I understand the value in this at all.

Exact same thing as Node allowing people specialized in javascript to easily transition to the server.

There is nothing for me in it, there is nothing for you in it, but there is something in it for the swift developers (and thus, for IBM).

Re: IBM to Bring Swift to the Cloud

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Post by kennywinker » Mon, Feb 22, 2016, 7:12 PM UTC

BenoitP wrote: post #9

k33n wrote: post #2

Can't say I understand the value in this at all.

Exact same thing as Node allowing people specialized in javascript to easily transition to the server. There is nothing for me in it, there is nothing for you in it, but there is something in it for the swift developers (and thus, for IBM).

Just like not everyone using node started as a frontend js dev who transitioned to server side, if Swift continues to mature on the server there will be people who use it who didn't start as iOS/Mac devs.