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The session titled "Explore the Swift on Server ecosystem" at WWDC 2024 provides an in-depth look at the Swift on server ecosystem. It highlights why Swift is an excellent language for developing server applications, emphasizing its performance, low memory footprint, and safety features like strong typing and memory safety. These attributes make Swift suitable for modern cloud services that require predictable resource consumption and fast startup times.
The session also discusses the Swift Server Workgroup, which was established in 2016 to promote the use of Swift for server applications. This workgroup plays a crucial role in defining and prioritizing efforts to address the needs of the server community and runs an incubation process for packages to ensure a robust and stable ecosystem.
For those interested in building server applications with Swift, the session covers various popular packages and tools available in the ecosystem, such as networking libraries, database drivers, and observability tools. It also provides resources for finding more libraries, like the Swift package index and the incubation list of the Swift Server Workgroup.
If you want to explore more about Swift's concurrency features, which are essential for handling highly concurrent workloads in server applications, you might find the session "A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design" particularly useful. This session covers the concept of tasks in Swift, which are lightweight and can execute concurrently, making them ideal for handling HTTP requests in server applications.
For more detailed information, you can refer to the session Explore the Swift on Server ecosystem (00:00:27) to learn about building a service using Swift on the server.
A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design
Learn the essential features and design philosophy of the Swift programming language. We’ll explore how to model data, handle errors, use protocols, write concurrent code, and more while building up a Swift package that has a library, an HTTP server, and a command line client. Whether you’re just beginning your Swift journey or have been with us from the start, this talk will help you get the most out of the language.
What’s new in Swift
Join us for an update on Swift. We’ll briefly go through a history of Swift over the past decade, and show you how the community has grown through workgroups, expanded the package ecosystem, and increased platform support. We’ll introduce you to a new language mode that achieves data-race safety by default, and a language subset that lets you run Swift on highly constrained systems. We’ll also explore some language updates including noncopyable types, typed throws, and improved C++ interoperability.
Explore the Swift on Server ecosystem
Swift is a great language for writing your server applications, and powers critical services across Apple’s cloud products. We’ll explore tooling, delve into the Swift server package ecosystem, and demonstrate how to interact with databases and add observability to applications.