Cease! Don’t pack up your desk and welcome the weekend simply but. It’s Monday, not Friday. 😂
As you might have seen there was a hiccup with publishing final Friday’s situation the place the software program I exploit to publish it was fully damaged for the day. 🙄 Fortunately it’s again now, and I can preserve my promise to publish immediately.
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-Facet 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 total context, however I feel it is a fairly massive deal for Swift.
I can hear you considering “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 every day. It’s off to 1 aspect 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 a giant deal for interoperability on the subject of massive corporations. 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 a giant tentpole “iCloud capabilities” characteristic 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 suppose 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 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 mentioned, I feel they’d agree with me that it’s massive information for Swift.
Dave Verwer 
