Ask HN: Swift for web development?

6 points by jpdelatorre 10 years ago | 5 comments

With Swift becoming open source soon, does that mean it will be possible to use Swift for web development? Are there any web framework for Swift projects out there?

maniacalrobot 10 years ago |

I'm sure there will be many swift web frameworks that spring up after swift is open sourced, and I could see it as a very real challenger to the similar apps written in Go. Especially if you've already written the frontend code for the iOS eco system, the reusing code for any web based backend system just makes sense. Although I do wonder if swifts primary advantage, its speed, is negated by the speed of making web requests.

romanovcode 10 years ago |

Not yet but there probably will be. Personally I think using Swift for webdev is waste of time however it's just my opinion.

yuuriayano 10 years ago |

I'm guessing you haven't tried Swift yourself no?

manis404 10 years ago |

Swift for web development? You might as well kill yourself.

gamechangr 10 years ago |

Try Swift. You could use it, but why would you put yourself through that sort of pain???