[Mandelmus]

It's a beautiful language that's a joy to write. It's safe and ergonomic, and has an extremely powerful type system. I'd say those are good reasons to use Swift.

[oddevan]

I'm really interested in exploring it for building web app backends because of this. Being able to have a drag-and-drop distribution is even better.

[_mlbt]

I haven't used it yet, but I've heard really good things about Vapor as far as server side Swift goes...

https://vapor.codes

[OKThatWillDo]

Thanks. What is a "protocol server?"

[potatolicious]

Not a super-expert but I've used Vapor on some personal projects. Do you have a link to the mention for "protocol server"? I'm not familiar with the concept but might be able to help.

[Redoubts]

I'm guessing they clicked onto the Built with SwiftNIO link and saw this at https://github.com/apple/swift-nio.

[OKThatWillDo]

That's right. I did a search but this term does not seem to have a trendy or thorough definition.