On: Swift on FreeBSD Preview

[wlesieutre]

There were three major server side Swift projects, and Vapor is the surviving one from that era

Dead projects are

- Kitura https://github.com/Kitura/Kitura

- Perfect https://github.com/PerfectlySoft/Perfect

Don't know of large organizations using it in production, the vibe I get is that it's useful for an iOS developer who wants to deploy a small server for their product without learning Python or Javascript.

You could certainly use it at larger scale, but you have to justify giving up the big ecosystems of its competitors.

[fastily → wlesieutre]

There’s also hummingbird: https://github.com/hummingbird-project/hummingbird

[wahnfrieden → fastily]

Sadly this project is getting steadily slower. Adopting async made it slower than Django. But this is due to Swift limitations. Hopefully Swift replaces Codable and improves async performance.