Cease! Don’t pack up your desk and welcome the weekend simply but. It’s Monday, not Friday. 😂
As you could have seen there was a hiccup with publishing final Friday’s difficulty the place the software program I exploit to publish it was utterly damaged for the day. 🙄 Fortunately it’s again now, and I can preserve my promise to publish right now.
13 years and seven weeks isn’t a foul streak for publishing each Friday, although, is it! 🎉
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The massive Swift information from final week occurred on the Server-Aspect Swift convention within the keynote session. Tony Parker and Ben Cohen introduced swift-java, a Swift/Java interoperability library.
I haven’t seen the presentation as I wasn’t in attendance this 12 months, so I’m working with virtually zero data somewhat than having the total context, however I feel this can be a fairly large deal for Swift.
I can hear you pondering “actually?”, and in the event you’re an iOS or macOS programmer I get it. It’s extraordinarily unlikely that you simply’ll ever use this or any of the opposite server-side Swift libraries that Apple contributes to every day. It’s off to 1 facet and out of the day-to-day limelight, however the Swift workforce (and due to this fact Apple) is taking server-side Swift severely.
It’s been no secret that Apple is utilizing Swift on the server internally for some time. We clearly don’t know precisely what they’re utilizing it for, however the effort they’re placing into libraries and interoperability tells a narrative. Java is an enormous deal for interoperability in the case of large firms. It simply is.
I used to assume Apple was going to do “the Apple factor” with server-side Swift and that one 12 months we’d see an enormous tentpole “iCloud capabilities” function or full server-side framework. One thing that’s simply as polished and shiny as SwiftUI. I modified my thoughts about that a couple of years in the past, although. As an alternative, I don’t assume they’re hiding something. I feel what you see with their assist of server-side Swift growth is the plan, and interoperability libraries like this are a part of it.
That is in whole hypothesis, in fact, and I can’t wait to see the announcement presentation from the convention so I can hear it in Tony and Ben’s phrases. That stated, I feel they’d agree with me that it’s large information for Swift.
Dave Verwer 