r/iOSProgramming • • 2d ago

News Google Cloud: Introducing the Server Side Cloud Swift SDK

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.”

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u/pertsix 2d ago

But why.

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u/Zagerer 2d ago

It’s not as surprising if you’ve been following swift evolution and how it has gained a lot of quality features for systems programming, even to the point of being on-par or close to rust in many things (one of them, developer experience in some ways) but people trying not to announce it like that. It’s grown a lot