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There's some momentum for Swift on servers. It has at least the potential for C-like performance, although the last time I tried it wasn't quite there yet. Migh
by xkemp 7y ago
There's some momentum for Swift on servers. It has at least the potential for C-like performance, although the last time I tried it wasn't quite there yet. Might also be useful for having a second stack that works on the client as well as the server.
Then, there's a big push for Swift+Tensorflow and other ML. The hope here appears to be the ability to implement "automatic differentiation" (or was it "integration"?). I don't remember enough math to fully understand, let alone try to explain that. But I can attest that even without being implemented, it has the power to get ML people salivating.
- Smoosh 7y agoAn example for zOS as a server: https://www.kitura.io/ https://www.kitura.io/
- ChrisMarshallNY 7y agoKimura is cool, but not sure what its future is: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/17/swift_ibm_pulls_back_open_source_priorities/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/17/swift_ibm_pulls_bac...
- ChrisMarshallNY 7y agoWhoops. Autocorrect typo. "Kitura." (I have "Kimura" in my dictionary).
- pjmlp 7y agoIBM is no longer interested in Kitura and Swift. https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/01/ibm-stop-work-swift-server/ https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/01/ibm-stop-work-swift-serve...