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 difficulty the place the software program I exploit to publish it was fully damaged for the day. 🙄 Fortunately it’s again now, and I can maintain my promise to publish at this time.
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 info fairly than having the total context, however I believe this can be a fairly large deal for Swift.
I can hear you pondering “actually?”, and when you’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 at least one facet and out of the day-to-day limelight, however the Swift staff (and subsequently Apple) is taking server-side Swift critically.
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 in terms of large corporations. It simply is.
I used to assume 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 just a few years in the past, although. As an alternative, I don’t assume they’re hiding something. I believe what you see with their help 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 believe they’d agree with me that it’s large information for Swift.
Dave Verwer 
