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by johnymontana 2976 days ago
I've seen a few server-side Swift frameworks (for building web apps or API apps) such as Perfect[1] and Kitura[2] (which is backed by IBM). It's not clear to me how much uptake they have so far.

[1] https://perfect.org/

[2] https://www.kitura.io/

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I was starting to use Kitura but it seems the community is more in favor of Vapor right now. I moved on to Vapor as a result. IBM seems like it might abandon the project like they did their Swift Packages website.
Vapor is the likely winner in terms of Swift frameworks, but this does not say much.

The API's not stable, the framework is in very active development.

I imagine things will settle down in a year or two - until then, there are so many great alternatives (other languages), that I don't see Swift gaining much ground.

For awhile it seemed IBM was about to pick Swift as they did before with Java, but then they lost steam.
Ah, was there some news about it or it just that IBM seems less active on Swift http/ssl stuff lately?
They seem to be less active.