Swift and SoSoSwift

To understand why Swift is a good candidate for server-side development, you need to understand a bit about Swift. Swift is a general propose language built with high performance, safety and expressiveness in mind. It's strongly typed, which means that the compiler will tell you if you've made incorrect assumptions about the types of your variables... . However, it also has a type-inference engine that greatly reduces the amount of type-related code you need to write. Swift takes ideas from many other languages, including things like optionals, tuples, closures, operator overloads and map/filter operations. Whilst these ideas may not be new in themselves, they have been nicely integrated into the language. Furthermore, most of them are implemented as language primitives, which makes the language very powerful. The syntax itself is fairly readable. My only complaint is that there can be several shorthand ways to write the same expression. If you're used to using a particular language shortcut, other ways can be difficult to read because you need to force your brain to remember all the combinations.Read More