On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 17:59:35 UTC, Joakim wrote:
A Wired article about Swift coming to the server, particularly
after the imminent open-sourcing, that also mentions D as an
alternative, especially since it's written by the same guy who
wrote about D for Wired last year:
http://www.wired.com/2015/11/apples-swift-ios-programming-language-is-being-remade-for-data-centers/
Will be interesting to see how Swift does, a good natural
experiment for those pushing D to focus on one niche before
expanding, as Swift is doing really well on one of the most
important development platforms today, iOS, before expanding
onto the server. Of course, Apple is unlikely to really push
it on the server, other than open-sourcing and accepting
patches, so they have a built-in excuse if it doesn't do well.
;)
I don't know Swift well enough to comment on its features or
merits, but it is naturally a success on iOS, because loads of
people develop for iOS and sooner or later Apple's new favorite
child will get everybody's attention. Server side, hm, I don't
know. Will it run on Linux? How common are Apple servers? As far
as I know, most server systems are Linux/Unix or Windows. That
would make Swift a niche language on niche servers, wouldn't it :)
It's nice, though, that D was mentioned in an Apple related
article.
