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This is fucking ChatGPT isn't it
TIL that we can't know for sure the timestamp of now + some time span greater than 6 months.
I really miss all the YouTube videos that would come out after an iPhone event with hands on and first impressions.
I really don’t see the problem with just statically linking everything.
Wow this is amazing
These things take time. A lot of people at Apple are heavily invested in Swift on the server, including the Swift core team: https://swift.org/server/
Swift itself still needs time to mature, too. Things like the memory model, async/await, generics, etc. The future is bright, it will just require some patience to get there.
While it's sad to see IBM go, Vapor and the Swift Server working group are alive and more active than ever
https://github.com/vapor/vapor/ https://swift.org/server/
Amazon has also created a Swift web framework: https://github.com/amzn/smoke-framework
https://github.com/qutheory/vapor
Vapor has great documentation and is really easy to use.
The server behind Vapor can be swapped out with any class that conforms to ServerDriver. So providers could be added to support any Swift web server.
There is additional documentation in the Wiki.
This line is just meant to keep the process alive. The actual implementation of the ServerDriver uses threads. It's also worth mentioning that Vapor is totally protocol-based and modular, so you can easily plug in any class that conforms to ServerDriver and replace this logic.
We are working hard to make all aspects of Vapor totally type safe. But, just by merit of being Swift, it's already infinitely more type safe than something like PHP.
A key goal of the project is to avoid the use of `Any` anywhere possible, and to move any run time safety checks to compile time.
"insanely" fast was meant as a comparison to languages like PHP and means both performance and time it takes to set up.