It seems to be a very un-Apple thing to do. Do you know why they would want to push it?
I can imagine that having a swift backend for your swift mobile app would be a lot nicer to work with than converting back and forth from a bunch of stringly-typed JSON.
I only develop part-time, as my main job is financial in nature, but god, it is really hard to find good learning material for serverside without depending on XCode. In particular, learning the server frameworks is almost not worth it. By using one language, I can keep my productivity acceptable.
If anyone has any references, I'd be super thankful!
Off topic but I love this, definitely stealing it. Did you coin this?
https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/
My other favorite from that list is "baklava code" -- code that has too many layers.