Cease! Don’t pack up your desk and welcome the weekend simply but. It’s Monday, not Friday. 😂
As you will have seen there was a hiccup with publishing final Friday’s challenge the place the software program I take advantage of to publish it was fully 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 nasty streak for publishing each Friday, although, is it! 🎉
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The large 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 yr, so I’m working with virtually zero data quite than having the complete context, however I feel this can be a fairly massive deal for Swift.
I can hear you pondering “actually?”, and if you happen to’re an iOS or macOS programmer I get it. It’s extraordinarily unlikely that you just’ll ever use this or any of the opposite server-side Swift libraries that Apple contributes to each day. It’s off to at least one facet and out of the day-to-day limelight, however the Swift workforce (and subsequently Apple) is taking server-side Swift significantly.
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 on the subject of massive firms. It simply is.
I used to suppose Apple was going to do “the Apple factor” with server-side Swift and that one yr 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 number of years in the past, although. As an alternative, I don’t suppose they’re hiding something. I feel what you see with their help of server-side Swift improvement is the plan, and interoperability libraries like this are a part of it.
That is in complete 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 massive information for Swift.