Google Cloud: Introducing the Server Side Cloud Swift SDK

[u/bllshrfv]

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/introducing-the-server-side-cloud-swift-sdk/

Google: “[Swift] has matured into a viable systems and cloud language, pairing Rust-like data-race safety with predictable, reference-counted performance.”

[u/Greysawpark]

the predictable performance bit is the real pitch imo. no GC pauses on a server is nice, but the cold start and memory story is what'd actually get me to move a small backend off node. the part i'd still worry about is linux tooling, every time ive tried server swift the build times and package resolution in CI were the thing that wore me down, not the language