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I feel like comparing performance of Vapor against Node JS in May of 2024 isn’t all I want to see. Like yes Node JS still dominates but we know other runtimes l
by willio58 2y ago
I feel like comparing performance of Vapor against Node JS in May of 2024 isn’t all I want to see. Like yes Node JS still dominates but we know other runtimes like Bun run much faster.
That part aside, I have to say Vapor kind of took over my brain for a year when I was in college. So much so that I actually built some freelance sites with it. A typed language for web development?! I loved the idea of using swift to make websites and honestly everything just worked so well—-until it didn't.
Remember Heroku? Well there was a heroku buildpack to make a vapor site build with a push to a git repo. Worked great 4 years ago. Well I’ve been ignoring heroku emails (my email is a landfill) for about 3 years and little did I know they had completely end-of-lifed the Postgres version I had been using to the point where the entire build was bricked. I could have spent like 5 hours downloading Xcode and getting it updated and working through errors but instead I just spun up a next js TypeScript site and had a working solution with code ported over (yay for static small sites) and deployed live. Today TypeScript does the job that Swift did for me back then, enabling types for web dev. Anyway, thanks to everyone who worked on or currently works on Vapor!
- mannuch 2y agoSwift has a pretty good VSCode extension these days actually. Check out https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sswg.swift-lang https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sswg.swi...
- truncate 2y agoSolid is pushing it. Its ok. Its still miles behind Go, Rust, C++. Partly because swift-lsp-server itself is lacking in functionality.
- wiseowise 2y ago> A typed language for web development?! What a novel idea.
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