SwiftNIO

A short introduction to SwiftNIO for try! Swift San Jose 2018

References
SwiftNIO "good first issues": https://github.com/apple/swift-nio/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22
Chris Liscio's quote: https://twitter.com/liscio/status/994928153263927296
Swift-Nio on Swift-Arm: https://medium.com/@futurejones/swift-nio-on-swift-arm-1e20ba5a586e
Hello world: https://gist.github.com/chriseidhof/d22d249e32e7d2463d9b28410df59f5a
Making a date server: https://roundwallsoftware.com/making-a-date-server-with-swiftnio/

Transcript

1. SwiftNIO 1 — @basthomas
2. Event-driven network application framework for high performance protocol servers & clients, non-blocking. 2 — @basthomas
3. What can you expect? · The Swi!NIO team is here! · Everything is happening on GitHub · ... almost everything · A lot of helpful documentation · "Just" a library · Semantic Versioning (Naming is Hard™) · Header documentation and tests · Builds on both macOS & Linux · "Good first issues" 3 — @basthomas
4. What can you do today? · A pull request is not the goal · Make yourself comfortable & explore · Browse recently merged (or open) pull requests · Browse recent issues · Read through the documentation · Ask questions! · Let people know about its existence 4 — @basthomas
5. The release of SwiftNIO is amazing for a number of reasons, but my favourite thing about it is that it serves as a fantastic demonstration of Swift being used for "systems programming." So much code there to dig through, and learn from. — Chris Liscio, https://twitter.com/liscio/status/994928153263927296 5 — @basthomas
6. Learn more & browse example projects · Swi!-Nio on Swi!-Arm · Hello world · Making a date server 6 — @basthomas