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		ed_blackburn on Feb 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What’s New in Swift 5.2 Swift on the server? Swimming against the tide? Or expressive language, ideal for writing information systems and backed by Apple with the fantastic LLVM tool chain at your disposal?

zionic on Feb 6, 2020 [–]

IMO Vapor (Swift) is the future. I absolutely love it for server side.

cerberusss on Feb 6, 2020 | [–]

Which distro do you use on the server? And is Swift easily installable/upgradeable there?

microtherion on Feb 6, 2020 | | [–]

Not the person you were asking, but I find the Swift docker images particularly easy to install/upgrade/run in parallel.

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