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Swift on Rails, who's first :) ? I suspect Heroku are working on preparing for an out of the box build pack, but I guess they don't have access yet since it's out late 2015. At least I hope so, looking for a better Ruby replacement but I still like Rails.


You should look at Elixir and Phoenix (http://www.phoenixframework.org/).


They should call it Swift On Sails.


Haha, yeah though Sails is also a Rails like framework for JavaScript

http://sailsjs.org/#!/


I guess it was either that or Jails


Please don't, or googling "Swift Sail" won't find me Wind Waker results anymore.


I never considered this! But it's fun to think about!

I'm a bit naive about the environments languages have to run in... but if we have a web app framework in Swift, Servers in swift (as mentioned in comments above), and iOS in swift, doesn't that make Swift a JS replacement too?


JavaScript's domain is mostly client side web browser scripting, and no language is close to throwing it off its throne. So no, JavaScript will always have its place.


ASM.js though makes languages with manual memory management relevant to web front-end work.

Hopefully, Swift might be a good candidate for fast browser code.




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