So there doesn’t need to be a direct connection to iOS to decide to use Swift for serverless function. A developer might just decide to use Swift for serverless functions.
(I can see the benefit to sharing certain kinds of code between client and server, but a lot of things have to line of for this to make sense, so I’m not sure if that’s a significant driver.)
But really, I've been struggling learning swift... I became the iOS developer with little to no experience.
Whether you think that's crazy or not, pure server Swift is a thing, personally I love it. https://vapor.codes
> "My goal for Swift has always been, and still is, total world domination," Chris Lattner, the creator of Swift, said onstage at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in 2017. https://www.businessinsider.com/developers-love-swift-apple-...
I'm having trouble finding the specific bit about "default language for computer science," might have been his interview on the ATP podcast. anyway
Had he stayed at Apple overseeing the language design I would agree.
App sends an event, Lambda sorts it into queue(s) for processing
App wants to know if its data is stale, asks Lambda
I think there is a niche for small, quick processing. Why write it in Node or whatever if your devs already know Swift?