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by andrewbarba 1404 days ago
This is a shameless plug, but I built Swift Cloud to help people build scalable backends in Swift: https://swift.cloud

Behind the scenes we compile Swift to WASM and deploy to Fastly's edge network, Compute@Edge. At my day job we are using this in production and serving thousands of requests per second on our Swift app. Overall it's a lot of fun to deploy Swift on server, but the developer UX still leaves a lot to be desired. Running and testing locally is still non-trivial.

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This looks great, good work!

One tangential question: do you worry about using "Swift", which I assume is an Apple trademark, in the name of your product?

Thanks so much.

And short answer - Yes.

My guess is it's a matter of 'when' I have to deal with this. I've had the domain for a while, and this is something I've wanted to build for such a long time. Things fell into place when I was able to build a Swift SDK for Fastly's platform back in January this year. The stubborn engineer in me went ahead and used the domain anyway and launched what you see today.

Gotcha, thanks for your answer :)
I already created an account! I’m definitely going to use this the next time I need a little cloud function
Love to hear that! Always feel free to reach out if you have any questions or run into issues.
I have no use for this project, but this seems super cool!