Is "server side Swift" becoming less niche? I'm not clear on why it isn't competing more with Go and Rust.
My impression has been that Swift is still very much seen as an “Apple” language, rather than a cross platform one. Another issue is that there are some operations that lead to crashes if they detect illegal behavior, in the name of providing safety and consistency. Some feel that this kind of behavior is counterproductive in a server environment because it would lead to the server keeling over if something goes wrong.
Interesting. I'm surprised not have seen more user contributed libraries for server side Swift that work around this, and the (mentioned below) lack of libraries, like ready made web server implementations. I viewed the apple fan club as more ambitious in the past. To be fair, I have zero experience in the Mac/iPhone area.
I had assumed zealous iPhone devs would want a homogenous environment where the client and server used the same rough codebase and libraries. Kind of like the node.js crowd, which I'm equally inexperienced with.