I tried seeing how it ranks on the 2025 tech empower benchmarks: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23&l=v...

And up against C#, Go and C++, Vapor could not make the top 70.

Even just compare Swift vs PHP and its a really poor showing for vapor: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23&l=v...

The speed is less correlated with the language it’s implemented in, and more with the amount of man hours spent building and optimizing it.

Vapor is a very small project, and thus is slower then other larger more mature projects.

I've used vapor as a side project API. For anything new and only on Apple ecosystem, its simpler to just go with SwiftData and CloudKit though.

I'm using it on my most recent projects and have had a great experience. It doesn't have the ecosystem of a language like Java, which can be frustrating, but it certainly handles 90% of my needs out of the box. I've never had a performance issue with Vapor. Compile times can be a bit slow if you have a lot of dependencies, but runtime performance has been great.

How is this possible? Here they say it's fast: https://www.swift.org/blog/how-swifts-server-support-powers-...