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 concern 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 hold my promise to publish at present.
13 years and seven weeks isn’t a foul 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 12 months, so I’m working with virtually zero info quite than having the total context, however I feel this can be a fairly large deal for Swift.
I can hear you considering “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 at least one aspect and out of the day-to-day limelight, however the Swift group (and due to this fact 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 with regards to large corporations. It simply is.
I used to suppose Apple was going to do “the Apple factor” with server-side Swift and that one 12 months we’d see a giant 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 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 stated, I feel they’d agree with me that it’s large information for Swift.
Dave Verwer 
