Ask HN: Anyone using Swift on the server-side?

For Lambda, AWS EC2, and ETL job using TabularData framework.

Highly performant, It runs within docker container. Documentation is highly available.

Challenges: Getting more people to use it and collaborate with it.

SwiftUI has become more trendy, that other frameworks don't get wide relevance.

another library which brings more interesting projects is: CoreML On-Device ML training and inference

I wrote a little service to handle some of the Matrix client-server authentication API.

The first version used Vapor before we had async/await. That was painful at times but doable.

Earlier this year I got some time to rewrite it in modern Swift with async/await. It’s a total game changer. Almost as easy as writing in Python.

Maybe even easier than Python sometimes, because with Swift you have a decent type system watching your back. If it compiles, then you’re probably most of the way there.

The team over at Swift Cloud are making it run on the edge.

https://swift.cloud/

The team at Swift Package Index is - https://github.com/SwiftPackageIndex/SwiftPackageIndex-Serve...

They use Vapor and seem to be doing alright.

Pre-pandemic I was building a new EV charging kiosk experience on Raspberry Pi industrial hardware using Swift in Docker (actually, Balena). Build times were a little long at the time, due to the RPi CPU speed and Swift’s compiler. But there were a surprising amount of hardware drivers available for things.

Also key were these Docker images: https://github.com/wlisac/swift-on-balena

I am writing the backend of my side-project with it. Async/Await in Swift is game-changing for safety and productivity. The tooling is only getting better and you can expect greater maturity with the coming of [Swift 6](https://forums.swift.org/t/on-the-road-to-swift-6/32862) likely next year.

I don’t work for them but Omnigroup does for Omnifocus for web, last I had read in their blog posts while they were developing it.

https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/under-the-hood-with-omnifocus...

We use Vapor3 and the language is ok, but the deployment story (docker/k8s, for us) is a nightmare and has caused us unending drama. Things seem a little better with newer versions of vapor and swift 5.5, but our experiments don’t seem to have gotten very far, and the upgrade story is quite a lot of work.