Pushing Swift to the Server
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Pushing Swift to the Server
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Re: Pushing Swift to the Server
#2Wow. That "same language connected by an interface schema would have prevented Mars mission loss" thing is a really thin stretch.
Re: Pushing Swift to the Server
#3Wow. That "same language connected by an interface schema would have prevented Mars mission loss" thing is a really thin stretch.
Exactly. I'm a fan of Swift on the server, but this is the best they can do with marketing?
Re: Pushing Swift to the Server
#4Wow. That "same language connected by an interface schema would have prevented Mars mission loss" thing is a really thin stretch.
Similar for (roughly) "we ran one benchmark and can now say that swift is similar to java in performance and uses half the memory generally, for all things". No reference to the benchmark either.
Re: Pushing Swift to the Server
#5Is Swift on the server a good idea? I don't own (or plan to own) a Mac. Does Apple support cross-platform tooling? I honestly don't know, but given their history, my default assumption is to be skeptical.
Why would you choose this over Go or Rust? (Rust is totally sweet for server dev, and I've spun up a few Rust servers for things.)
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#6IBM, the purveyor of Rational/Websphere suite of Java tools and appservers talking about Java memory usage is sign of changing times. I hope they do better job this time with Swift tools and frameworks.
Re: Pushing Swift to the Server
#7Is Swift on the server a good idea? I don't own (or plan to own) a Mac. Does Apple support cross-platform tooling? I honestly don't know, but given their history, my default assumption is to be skeptical. Why would you choose this over Go or Rust? (Rust is totally sweet for server dev, and I've spun up a few Rust servers for things.)
The Swift Open Source community is quite vibrant. They're already building it on Linux + macOS. See: https://github.com/apple/swift
Edit: They also have a Platform Support page, where they discuss their goals/intentions on cross-platform: https://swift.org/about/#platform-support
Re: Pushing Swift to the Server
#8Is Swift on the server a good idea? I don't own (or plan to own) a Mac. Does Apple support cross-platform tooling? I honestly don't know, but given their history, my default assumption is to be skeptical. Why would you choose this over Go or Rust? (Rust is totally sweet for server dev, and I've spun up a few Rust servers for things.)
Why would it matter if it was cross platform if it is running on a server?
Re: Pushing Swift to the Server
#9Is Swift on the server a good idea? I don't own (or plan to own) a Mac. Does Apple support cross-platform tooling? I honestly don't know, but given their history, my default assumption is to be skeptical. Why would you choose this over Go or Rust? (Rust is totally sweet for server dev, and I've spun up a few Rust servers for things.)
Why would it matter if it was cross platform if it is running on a server?
Because the officially supported platform, macOS/iOS, isn't a server platform anymore.
Re: Pushing Swift to the Server
#10Is Swift on the server a good idea? I don't own (or plan to own) a Mac. Does Apple support cross-platform tooling? I honestly don't know, but given their history, my default assumption is to be skeptical. Why would you choose this over Go or Rust? (Rust is totally sweet for server dev, and I've spun up a few Rust servers for things.)
Why would it matter if it was cross platform if it is running on a server?
Developing on Mac, deploying on Linux, which could be x86 or ARM, etc? MacOS isn't really a server platform, definitely not a cloud OS.