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
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2. Event-driven network
   application framework for high
   performance protocol servers &
   clients, non-blocking.
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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"
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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
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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
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6. Learn more & browse example projects
   · Swi!-Nio on Swi!-Arm
   · Hello world
   · Making a date server
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