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IBM is betting on it as a programming language for enterprise applications. Expect a Swift EE coming from them.

Microsoft also acknowledged that Swift support is the top request for their iOS bridge.

They already built a flask type server side framework :

I've built a few simple apps running on Linux that have worked great.

Check out Zewo[1]. They've been doing a lot of great work to make Swift 3.0 on the server work really well. Also, check out VeniceX[2] for concurrency and Open Swift[3] for cross project standards[3].

[1]: https://github.com/Zewo/Zewo/ [2]: https://github.com/VeniceX/Venice [3]: https://github.com/open-swift/docs

2nd most starred web framework for Swift:

http://github.com/qutheory/vapor

Works on linux.