Comment by ChrisMarshallNY

I've been writing Swift daily, since the day it was announced, and have shipped a number of apps, written in it.

I have learned to like the language. It's not perfect, but comes closer than most. I've written in a lot of languages, over the years.

My other language is PHP, which I use for my backend work. I've probably been writing that for over twenty years, but I still don't like the language.

As I was learning Swift, I started this series of posts[0]. It's still ongoing, but I haven't added anything in a while, and the language has progressed, since the earlier posts.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/series/swiftwater/

antman123 a day ago

why don't you try swift on server?

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stephen_g a day ago

As someone wanting to play around with it - is Vapor still the framework people recommend, or is Hummingbird the new hotness?

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- ezfe a day ago
  
  My understanding is they both have their strengths. If you want to build everything yourself, Hummingbird seems like the way to go but Vapor is more batteries-included.
  
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ChrisMarshallNY a day ago

Lots of reasons. The biggest one, is that I write stuff that needs to host on the most basic servers out there -usually cheap-ass shared LAMP hosting.
It’s no big deal. I don’t really do much backend work, so PHP is fine for that.

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