[Cyberdog]

Starting about three years ago, I taught myself to build sites with Kitura, and got pretty far with it. As someone who has been paying the bills entirely with PHP since 2007, I loved the strong typing and great tooling, and I was hoping to get in on the ground floor and establish myself as an expert so I could get scooped up by an early adopter, or (gasp) maybe even IBM themselves. But those opportunities never materialized, and I got discouraged about a year ago after IBM made the baffling decision to release a new version of their database library, Kuery, which made it unusable in any non-asynchronous way (barring silly hacks), which doesn't really make sense in terms of web development. Sure, you could still use other database libraries instead, but then you're out of the IBM ecosystem. It was a weird decision and one has to wonder if IBM was eating their own dog food.

At any rate, I'd love to get back into it one of these days, but for now, PHP projects have paying clients, so that's still what I focus on. I would also like to see Swift get more "official" attention outside of Ubuntu; specifically I want it on the BSDs, though of course other Linux distros deserve it too. I'll gladly use Ubuntu if a client pays me to, though.