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I have been using Swift Vapor for personal projects for awhile and it's great. I kind of regret it now on some projects since I use a lot of Go too and I miss the speed of compiling/testing when I'm using agentic coding (where my goal is to put the agent into virtuous loops leading to a success state) - it just takes longer in Swift.

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In agentic workflows, Go’s fast compiler and simple syntax make things so much easier.

I no longer write Python or JavaScript, even for trivial scripts. Why suffer sluggish performance or tooling nightmares when choosing a typed language no longer costs much?

As for Swift, it’s a harder sell. The docs aren’t there. The libraries aren’t that great. Apple-ism scares away a ton of folks, and the alternatives create less friction.

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