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Do you mean client-side as in an ios/mac app? If so then yes my bad, I meant client-side web (which I believe the OP is trying to do as other they presumably wo
by nicoburns 5y ago
Do you mean client-side as in an ios/mac app? If so then yes my bad, I meant client-side web (which I believe the OP is trying to do as other they presumably wouldn't be using JS/TS seeing as they don't seem to like it). Of course, client-side mobile apps are great in Swift. I just would't recommend compile-to-js. If you do have a good compile-to-js workflow for Swift I'd be interested in hearing about it.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoYeah, I write the whole app, and server interaction is usually done through a “faceless” API. Rust seems like an excellent server language, and I look forward to seeing it get more mindshare. Swift smells a lot like Rust. But I’ve used PHP for my backend work. I’m not really a backend engineer, and I am sure it could be done better; even with PHP. One of the reasons for my choosing PHP, is because it is so widely known, and is a perfectly good language, as long as it is written well. There was that study that was done recently, where they showed what I call “the fishtank graph.” This was the graph that showed which server languages were in use. PHP was this fairly steady line along the top, and every other language looked like gravel in a fishtank, along the bottom.