I'm also wondering whether SwiftNIO will be rewritten to use actors, or it will stay "old-school" for the sake of efficiency. Very much looking forward to Swift

I'm also wondering whether SwiftNIO will be rewritten to use actors, or it will stay "old-school" for the sake of efficiency. Very much looking forward to Swift maturing for backend development either way. It's an amazing, rich language with the only drawback of the compiler being shamefully slow (though it's probably not that bad on Linux, where there are no legacy ObjC frameworks). Other than that, I love the idea of having an ARC-based modern type-safe language on the backend, possibly with the new concurrency model being at the core of the network framework.