Overview

This Swift monthly newsletter showcases Swift’s viability for production web development, featuring a case study from Studioworks about building a large-scale business platform entirely in Swift. The company has processed millions in invoices with exceptional performance and reliability.

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The Breakdown

  • A creative studio management platform built with Swift processes millions in invoices with fewer crashes and bugs reaching production than any previous web technology
  • Swift web apps achieve sub-100ms page load times using the Elementary templating framework and Hummingbird 2 server framework
  • The transition from Python/PHP required rebuilding deployment tooling and experimentation, but ultimately delivers equivalent development speed with much higher code quality
  • Swift’s memory safety and type system provide inherent advantages for building reliable web applications compared to traditional web languages