Bringing Swift to the server-side

Swift has been used extensively for client-side development in iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. Since the open source developer community brought Swift to the Linux platforms and made Swift a cross-platform programming language, it makes sense for developers to use Swift for server-side development as well.

Client developers that are already skillful with the Swift language and are accustomed to the tools and libraries used in Swift projects, will find the transition to server-side development straightforward. They can enjoy the same benefits offered by Swift in server-side projects: type-safety, ease of programming, and compiled performance. By using Swift in both client- and server-side development, developers are expected to be more productive and more skillful.

Of course, the client developers are required to learn some new server-side skills. The workflow on the client side is very different from that of server-side development. On the client side, developers often work to enhance user interfaces, build data models and develop application logic that works with remote cloud services. For server-side development, they need to be able to implement and test network requests, add logic to handle the requests, and route the requests to other backend modules to handle them.

As developers gain expertise in writing both server and client code, they will share code between the server and a client's modules, and optimize the code for both client and server-side development.