Caesar Wirth: Soaring Swiftly - Server Side Swift

Swift is no longer confined to iOS and Mac OS. Now that it runs on Linux as well, the possibility has opened up to write web servers in Swift. What would it take to write a backend server in Swift?

Talk given on March 4, 2016 at try! Swift in Tokyo, Japan

Demo code can be found here: https://github.com/cjwirth/trySwiftServer

Mark Zuckerberg Quote -- It's a sort of misrepresented translation of "Done is better than perfect." It gives off more of a "Meh, it probably works, so let's release it, dude!" vibe.

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