Friday, time for a fun project! Today we are going to bring Swift NIO (yes, that new Swift server framework) to the mobile device. Why? Because we can! Along the way we disrupt Google search. Oh no. It is Monday only …

You are a backend developer and are told to rewrite everything because your framework is switching to something mysterious called “async”? You also heard about Swift NIO and how this is non-blocking? The ARI tries to explain what this means to you by example.

Last week we built a tiny web framework on top of the new Swift NIO. This time we are going to add support for Mustache templates. Again the goal is to use a minimal amount of code while still providing something useful.

In a surprise move, Apple released swift-nio on March 1st. Today we are going to have a look on how to use that Swift package, and build a tiny but useful web framework along the way. Say hello to µExpress. Again.

In Using the Swift Server API 0.1.0 we wrote a straight Google replacement using just the raw Swift Server API. This time we are going to write a micro server framework wrapping that API. Say Hello World to MicroExpress!

Properly handling date and time is a really complicated manner. Many developers just give up when seeing “full” explanations on how this works. Today we try to explain floating dates and times, in a hopefully simple way.

PL/Swift allows you to write custom SQL functions and types for the PostgreSQL database server in the Swift programming language.
Bringing Swift to the Backend of the Backend’s Backend!

One of the features I like most about Swift is its pretty great integration with C. You know, that you can just do this:

The Swift Server APIs Project is an effort the provide a common HTTP implementation to be used in the various Swift application server frameworks (Kitura, Perfect and so on). The ARI shows you how to use it on either macOS or Linux.

At Noze.io we added a small blog entry about Server Side Swift in 2016 and some ideas how Noze.io could evolve in 2017. And we have yet another project to announce: mod_swift - Server Side Swift done right™!

Hello everyone: In case you didn’t notice yet, the ARI co-founded a new project, which we happen to call Noze.io.

' ': The final frontier. Where no one has gone before. Feel invited to get another glimpse on how Swifter is getting everything right. Today we are looking at the ' ' and beyond.

Let’s say you want to develop a Swift thing on Linux. Instead of throwing everything in one big package, you would like to organize things in neat little separate packages.

The Always Right Institute is being right in doing some of its websites using Zurb’s Foundation 5. Why? Well, we had a look at Bootstrap first and ended up pretty confused. Could it really be possible that the Twitter folks did not understand the cascading part in Cascading StyleSheets? Apparently. Maybe they fixed it in the meantime. Foundation looked pretty good and the HTML structure well organized.

So you are living on MacOS but you want to try the Linux port of Swift. What to do? Since the Swift Linux port doesn’t work on a Pi (buhh Apple! Even Windows 10 does!), the easiest way is to install Linux in a virtual machine. If you are anything like the people at the world renowned ARI - you refused to pay Parallels $50 just for the 10.11 update. So the ARI gave VirtualBox a try.

SwiftSockets is now available via CocoaPods. I’m still not sure whether that is a good idea, since SwiftSockets is:

A few more examples of tvOS Swifter code. Again, focus is on keeping selectors but removing static types as well as noize.

TL;DR: Swifter is the complete opposite of Swift. Instead of focusing on making everything C++-like vtably static, Swifter goes back to the rootz of Objective-C and makes everything dynamic.

Short notice on picking up suggestions from the community: Yes indeed, the Swifter compiler should be written in Swift. This will ensure that it can’t possibly crash.

In a bold move the Always Right Institute today announced Swifter. Swifter is a programming language in active development (not), which is wicked fast. It compiles swiftly and executes even swifter. Swifter promises to be the Objective-Z without the Z, but with a C.

Finally - The ARI made available the results of six months of hard work - right on GitHub: SwiftSockets!

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