[k33n]

Can't say I understand the value in this at all.

[dijit]

Heroku for swift?

Sounds like an old business model with a new language.

Still, making the lumbering giant tread into the 21st century is not going to be without pain, I'm glad to see they are at least trying.

[pjmlp]

As a Java early adopter, I saw many jump to it thanks to IBM's adoption.

Assuming this might have a similar effect, Oracle should better speed up those value types and AOT compilation improvements.

[BenoitP]

Exact same thing as Node allowing people specialized in javascript to easily transition to the server.

There is nothing for me in it, there is nothing for you in it, but there is something in it for the swift developers (and thus, for IBM).

[lhnz]

I transitioned from Python to Node and from Node onto the whole stack. I think a lot of people did this.

There are presumably still a lot of people that see benefit in being able to write one programming language across their whole stack.

[kennywinker]

Just like not everyone using node started as a frontend js dev who transitioned to server side, if Swift continues to mature on the server there will be people who use it who didn't start as iOS/Mac devs.

[zepto]

Presumably you don't program in swift.