February 2017
Intermediate to advanced
75 pages
1h 37m
English
Content preview from Extending Swift Value(s) to the Server
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Conclusions
Swift is a powerful programming language that supports both object-oriented and functional programming. Its static type checking, type inferencing, optional types, value types, and closures allow you to write code that is clear, concise, and robust. It catches more bugs at compile-time—such as accesses to nil values—than many other popular languages. Swift’s facilities ease the implementation of constructs such as promises (a.k.a., futures) that greatly simplify asynchronous programming. Its ahead-of-time compilation provides predictable performance and plays nicely with libraries written in other languages such as C. Swift is well suited for real applications.
If you choose to implement your server-side code in Swift, you’ll find the necessary tools to help you. The Swift Package Manager aids in importing other libraries into your project and building your application correctly. The Kitura library helps get you started quickly building web apps by handling incoming web requests and routing them to your application code. Bluemix and the IBM Cloud Tools for Swift provide for easy deployment.
We hope you consider writing the entire stack of your next application in Swift, from client to sensor to server.
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.