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Personally, I wish Swift had a larger server-side ecosystem around it. I love the language, and some of the new web app frameworks (Vapor, Perfect, Kitura, etc
by pharaohgeek 8y ago
Personally, I wish Swift had a larger server-side ecosystem around it. I love the language, and some of the new web app frameworks (Vapor, Perfect, Kitura, etc.) are really great. However, there just aren't as many open-source, third-party libraries as there are for Java. To me, that's really Java's strength. There are libraries or clients for EVERYTHING.
- veidr 8y agoI like Swift, too, and if it's a rap battle between Swift and Java, I think Swift has to emphasize C interop, and more recently (or perhaps "soonly"?) Python interop. But regardless, we're gonna have to give it a few years to get a Swift ecosystem even trying to get on the mic in the same venues as Java/JDK.
- ofrzeta 8y agoI don't think this is gonna happen. There's no huge momentum behind Swift on the server. And when IBM is losing interest it will be reduced by 50 percent. Apple doesn't seem to be too much interested in Swift on a server (apart from releasing SwiftNIO, that's about it). When you take a look at the commit stats of Vapor on GitHub you will notice that there's not much going on either.